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… Read more...

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Author:

Toussaint François Jourjon

Also known as:

Toussaint Francois Jourjon

Born:

4th Mar, 1809

Dead:

28th Jan, 1857

Country:

France

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Toussaint-François Jourjon (1809-1857) est un peintre et un sculpteur français, second Prix de Rome en 1836. Read more...

Author:

after 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 (/ʒɑːkˈlwi ˈdɑːviːd/; French: [ʒak lwi david]; 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… Read more...