Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Intervention of the Sabine Women
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Preferred Title:
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Intervention of the Sabine Women
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Image View:
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Detail, upper right, artist's conception of ramparts of the Roman Capitol
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Creator:
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Jacques-Louis David (French painter, 1748-1825)
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Location:
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repository: Musée du Louvre (Paris, Île-de-France, France) INV. 3691
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Location Note:
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Purchased 1819
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GPS:
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+48.861045+2.335787
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Date:
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1799 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Eighteenth century; Neoclassical
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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3.85 m (height) x 5.22 m (width)
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Description:
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David's painting depicts a legendary episode from Rome's beginnings in the 8th century BCE. After the Sabine women had been abducted by the neighboring Romans, the Sabines attempted to get them back. David shows the Sabine women intervening to stop the battle raging beneath the ramparts of the Capitol in Rome. The painting is a masterful summary of the whole episode. Hersilia is leaping between her father Tatius, the king of the Sabines, on the left, and her husband Romulus, the king of Rome, on the right. David is using the subject to advocate the reconciliation of the French people after the Revolution. While he was preparing this painting, whose subject is Roman, David proclaimed, ""I want to paint pure Greekness."" He wanted to mark his transition from the severe, Roman style of The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre) with a new pictorial manifesto. (Source: Louvre Museum [website]; http://www.louvre.fr/)
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Image Description:
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David adhered to the theories of the German archaeologist and historian of ancient art Johann Winckelmann for his conception of ancient Greek art.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eight
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Identifier:
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7A1-DJL-L-A11
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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