Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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)