The Death of Seneca (David)
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title:
The Death of Seneca (David)
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The Death of Seneca is a 1773 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David, now at the Petit Palais in Paris. It shows the suicide of Seneca the Younger. With its Boucher-like assembly of gesticulating figures, it was his third attempt to win the Prix de Rome, but lost to a painting on the same subject by Pierre Peyron. Peyron's had fewer details and a darker colour palette and was closer to the 'antique'. He was not only David's rival, but also initiated the new classicism wh
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Painting by Jacques-Louis David
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Seneca_(David)
date created:
2015-02-08T01:07:30Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:02:13Z
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