# Jacques Louis David and the French Revolution

Author: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958; David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 [Artist]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75887

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jacques+Louis+David+and+the+French+Revolution+Valentiner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Is it possible that a period like the French Revolution and the era of Napoleon’s tyrannous rule should witness the development of a great art? It would seem that in the domain of art fresh creative impulses are born more often in times of unrest and disturbance than in periods of political security. Those epochs in the history of art which we regard today as “golden ages”--the age of Pericles; the Renaissance at about 1500; the Holland of the day of Frans Hals and Rembrandt--were by no means peaceful years, but periods of national strife and revolutionary ideas. No happy alliance is possible between political discipline and art which springs from the free, untrammeled impulse of the indi...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jacques-louis-david-and-the-french-revolution-75887/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jacques-louis-david-and-the-french-revolution-75887/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jacques-louis-david-and-the-french-revolution-75887/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jacques-louis-david-and-the-french-revolution-75887/chapters/4/index.md)