Producers: Colin Clark/VPS Limited and Reader's Digest
Year: 1974
Format: DVD Running time: 26 mins.
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Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
David was the first painter to revolt against the vapid character that Classicism had assumed in the Academies and to give it a new vitality. Kenneth Clark traces his development, from its early realization in "The Death of Marat," of the dream that art can be used to influence man's conduct.