Death of Marat

The Revolutionary government asked David to ........... the ideals of the Revolution through a series of paintings that would heroicize new political martyrs.

Marat’s ............. reminds us of the Pietà, of the image of Christ being mourned having just been taken down from the cross.

So the idea that a martyr to the Revolution is replacing the central Christian martyr is vividly...

That was a ................... idea of the Revolution: to dismantle, not only the monarchy, but the church as well. And to secularize French life.

This is the ....................., this is a time of rational thinking, of believing in empirical observation over the superstitions and traditions of the church.

There is an interesting contrast between the specificity of the foreground and the indeterminate, open .................... of the background that almost doesn't look finished.

This contrast isolates Marat, it ................. our attention on him.

As we look around at other paintings in this museum, what I see in the upper part of a painting are angels. David can't have that anymore, but a new .............. has not yet developed.

We can see that neoclassical interest in studying the ................, painting it very carefully, paying a lot of attention to contours, modelling in the effects of light and dark.

In direct contrast to the .................... interiors of Rococo paintings of the lifestyle of the aristocracy, here we have a decidedly stark interior, Spartan, with no elaborate furniture, no gold. This is a man, David wants to tell us, who lived according to the republican ideals of the Revolution.