CENTURY WATCH – This Year in History: 1825
The Death of Jacques-Louis David –
When we think of great artists from the past, we usually don’t associate them with political movements. Our stereotype of the artist places him in a lonely studio, hunched over his work of genius, oblivious to the political storms that might be raging in the street below. But this misses something key about politics: someone always has to be telling the story. And prior to the invention of a camera, you needed an artist for that.
