The Death of Marat
1793 · Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
David was Marat's friend and political ally, and he laid the murdered man out in his bath with the gravity of a religious lamentation.
★ 9.0
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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
1793 · Louvre, Paris
Cupid's wings stay up as the two bodies cross in a weightless X, cut so smooth the marble stops reading as stone.
★ 7.9
Three Beauties of the Present Day
1793 · Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Boston
Three famous women of 1790s Edo on mica ground, their faces nearly identical, so you have to read them from the tilt of an eye.
★ 7.8
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793