Marat is very distressed
Oh my god. Marat is very clearly trying to say “Back off, lady, I’m in the bath,” and Charlotte Corday is not respecting his personal space at all. Goddamn, Corday. What is your problem.
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Posts tagged Marat.
And here we have another example of the Very Dramatic Marat, again of the dead variety.
(Also featuring Very Angry Citizens.)
This is the most overly dramatic painting I’ve ever seen.
REVOLUTIONARY JAZZ HANDS.
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Marat Redux. Michael Costello
July 13, 1793 - French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
Death of Marat scene from Abel Gance’s Napoleon (1927)
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Top: “The Death Of Marat” (Jacques-Louis David, 1793, oil on canvas)
Bottom: Antonin Artaud as Marat in “Napoleon” (Abel Gance, 1927)
Locket with portraits of Louis XVI and Antoinette in it. Her hair is unpowdered for once, so you can see the pretty strawberry blond colour!
Post 1793: the year in which both Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were sent to the guillotine.
And bonus: one of my favourite paintings ever, Jaques-Louis David’s Death of Marat:
