Léonidas in Thermopyles

Léonidas in Thermopyles is a table of Jacques-Louis David (1814) exposed to the Musée of Louvre.

Description

In the medium, Léonidas, holding its weapons, sat on a rock, close to the furnace bridge of Hercules. Beside him, on the right, Acted, his/her brother-in-law, deposits the crown of flowers which it carried during the sacrifice, and the blind man Eurytus, led by a Hilote, holds up a lance. A troop of Spartiate S advances with the sound of the trumpets. All the details of this table are borrowed from the account of the Abbé Barthelemy, in his Voyage of the Anacharsis young person in Greece in the medium of IVe century .

Analyzes

This famous and debatable table, begun after Marengo and which made say to Napoleon: “You have wrong, David, to paint overcome”, was completed only in 1814. It is one of most characteristic of the neo-classic School . The table exists only for the central figure who is not more Léonidas that another famous character, but a beautiful piece of naked. David had of another concern only of painting beautiful bodies, beautiful “academies”. He did not let himself stop by the improbability of his helmeted warriors, the shield with the arm, the sword or the javelin with the fist, carefully fitted and very naked. The colors are punts and cold, the uniformly gilded flesh, the blue, green and red coats uniforméments.

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