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Jacques-Louis David
(30th Aug, 1748 - 29th Dec, 1825)
Belisarius Begging for Alms
1781
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Philipp Bernard
palais des beaux-arts de Lille
http://www.pba-lille.fr/
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Keywords:
Belisarius (c.500-565)
Neo-classicism
base of column
alms
charity
beggar
soldier
old age
man
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About the artwork
Title:
Belisarius Begging for Alms
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
XIXth century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
2880 x 3120
Inventory number:
Inv.P.436
Detail:
painting by Jacques-Louis David
Location:
palais des beaux-arts de Lille
See more about this artwork on Wikipedia:
Belisarius Begging for Alms
(French:
Bélisaire demandant l'aumône
) is a large-format (288 × 312 cm) history painting in oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the Byzantine general Belisarius, who heroically defeated the Vandals in North Africa in AD 533–534 on behalf of Justinian I, and (according to an apocryphal account probably added to his biography in the Middle Ages) was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street. David exhibited the work at the…
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About the author(s)
Author:
Jacques-Louis David
Also known as:
Jacques Louis David
Born:
30th Aug, 1748
Dead:
29th Dec, 1825
Country:
France
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Jacques-Louis David
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; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the
Ancien Régime
. David later became an active supporter of…
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