Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Jacques-Louis David
Born: August 30, 1748
Died: December 29, 1825 (aged 77)
Bio: Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
Known for:
- The Death of Marat (1793)
- Oath of the Horatii (1784)
- The Death of Socrates (1787)
- Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1805)
- The Coronation of Napoleon (1807)