While in Italy, David mostly studied the works of 17th-century masters such as Poussin, Caravaggio, and the Carracci. In October 1775 he made the journey to Italy with his mentor, Joseph-Marie Vien, who had just been appointed director of the French Academy at Rome. Finally, in 1774, David was awarded the Prix de Rome on the strength of his painting of Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease, a subject set by the judges. Confident he now had the support and backing needed to win the prize, he resumed his studies with great zeal-only to fail to win the Prix de Rome again the following year. After his second loss in 1772, David went on a hunger strike, which lasted two and a half days before the faculty encouraged him to continue painting. David made three consecutive attempts to win the annual prize, (with Minerva Fighting Mars, Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children and The Death of Seneca) with each failure allegedly contributing to his lifelong grudge against the institution. Called pensionnaire they were housed in the French Academy's Rome outpost, which from the years 1737 to 1793 was the Palazzo Mancini in the Via del Corso. Since artists were now revisiting classical styles, the trip provided its winners the opportunity to study the remains of classical antiquity and the works of the Italian Renaissance masters at first hand. Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore, 1774вЂ“5, an early workД®ach year the Academy awarded an outstanding student the prestigious Prix de Rome, which funded a 3- to 5-year stay in Rome. There, David attended the Royal Academy, based in what is now the Louvre. Boucher decided that instead of taking over David's tutelage, he would send David to his friend, Joseph-Marie Vien (1716вЂ“1809), a painter who embraced the classical reaction to Rococo. Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style. He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from FranГ§ois Boucher (1703вЂ“1770), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative. Soon, he desired to be a painter, but his uncles and mother wanted him to be an architect. He covered his notebooks with drawings, and he once said, 'I was always hiding behind the instructor's chair, drawing for the duration of the class'.

They saw to it that he received an excellent education at the CollГЁge des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris, but he was never a good student-he had a facial tumor that impeded his speech, and he was always preoccupied with drawing. When he was about nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him with his well-off architect uncles. Jacques-Louis David was born into a prosperous French family in Paris on 30 August 1748. David had many pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien RГ©gime.Дavid later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758вЂ“1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

Jacques-Louis David ( French: 30 August 1748В вЂ“ 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. 33rd President of the National ConventionД¬ollГЁge des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris

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