Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825) was a famous and highly influential French painter of the Neoclassical era.
==Biography==
David actively supported the French Revolution, joining the Jacobin Club, producing a of the and befriending the noted Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Jacques-Louis David He also drew meetings of the club, being probably the first "photo" reporter in history.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Club des Jacobins As Robespierre and the Jacobins came to power in 1793, the former collaborated with David to use art and culture as a political tool.Project Widow – "Woe is Robespierre"
After Louis-Michel le Peletier was killed in January 1793, David produced a painting of him, which the former's daughter, Louise-Suzanne, would later destroy.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Louise-Suzanne Le Peletier When the radical revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday in July of that year,Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat David visited the scene of the crime to produce one of his most famous paintings: . The French Assassin Arno Dorian also visited the scene to investigate the murder. On being questioned by Arno however, David brushed him off, stating that he was preoccupied with his painting. The painting would go on to immortalize Marat as a Jacobin martyr concerned with the safety of France.Project Widow – "Marat the martyr"
The poet André Chénier despised David, considering him a "most despicable propagandist", and wrote a series of satirical poems about him called Le Jeu de Paume. Infuriated, David called in favors from Robespierre and his supporters and had them take over Chénier's house and keep the poems under guard. However, Chénier sent Arno to recover them.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Vicious Verses
When Robespierre hosted the Festival of the Supreme Being at the Champ de Mars on 8 June 1794, David collaborated with opera composer and André Chénier's brother, the dramatist Marie-Joseph Chénier, to organize the festivities.Project Widow – "The Festival of the Supreme Being" David commissioned the construction of an artificial mountain made of plaster and cardboard, on top of which stood a 50-foot column holding a statue of Hercules.Cult of the Supreme Being: Revolutionaries Reinvent God
After Napoleon Bonaparte came to power in 1799, David aligned himself with the new regime, much as he had with Robespierre, painting the portrait .Assassin's Creed: Unity – Again, in 1812, David painted Emperor Napoleon I in the portrait .Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #2: "Sixty-Four Squares"
==Gallery==
ACU Arno questioning Jacques-Louis David.png|Arno Dorian interrogating Jacques-Louis while he paints
Jacques-Louis David - La Mort de Marat.jpg| (1793)
NapoleonAlps.jpg| (1801)
AC2 - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries.jpg| (1812)
DTAG - Painting of Leonidas at Thermopylai.png| (1814)
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Unity
==References==
zh:雅克-路易·大卫
Category:1748 births
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