Period Neoclassicism Genre History painting | Dimensions 1.1 m x 1.51 m Created 1819 Media Canvas, Oil paint | |
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Similar Jacques-Louis David artwork, Artwork at Kimbell Art Museum, Neoclassical artwork | ||
The anger of achilles painting analysis
The Anger of Achilles is an 1819 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
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- The anger of achilles painting analysis
- Introducing the illiad part iii the anger of achilles
- References
One of the last of David's history paintings, it shows the moment in Greek myth when Agamemnon reveals to Achilles that he has not actually brought his daughter Iphigenia to him as a bride, but rather intends to sacrifice her in order to appease the goddess Artemis. Achilles begins to draw his sword in anger upon hearing this, while Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, looks on in grief and sadness with her hand on her daughter's shoulder.
David produced it during his exile in Brussels. An 1824 copy of the painting now in a private collection is attributed to Michel Ghislain Stapleaux under David's direction.
Introducing the illiad part iii the anger of achilles
References
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