One of his paintings shows a stairway through a stone archway on the left and features a man in a toga being passed a cup of hemlock.
In a book subtitled Art in Metamorphosis, Dorothy Johnson claimed that this artist was one of the first to express the attitudes of his subjects in their entire bodies. Two horn players appear behind a tree trunk on the right hand side of one canvas by this artist, in which three men hold outstretched wreaths behind a Spartan king. This painter of Leonidas at Thermopylae depicted a divan perched on some clouds in Mars Being Disarmed by Venus, while a divan is again the seat of the primary subject of his portrait of Madame Recamier. One of his paintings shows a stairway through a stone archway on the left and features a man in a toga being passed a cup of hemlock. In a different painting by him, three brothers gesture towards their father, who holds their swords. For 10 points, name this French Neoclassical painter of The Death of Socrates and The Oath of the Horatii.
In a book subtitled Art in Metamorphosis, Dorothy Johnson claimed that this artist was one of the first to express the attitudes of his subjects in their entire bodies.
Jacques-Louis David