Art as Propaganda: Great Art Explained: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David

My book Great Art Explained is ready to order now worldwide US - https://a.co/d/52C1D6c UK - https://amzn.eu/d/6EoTxjs Spain - https://www.cincotintas.com/product/obras-maestras-explicadas/ Also available in many other countries Latin and Central America soon India in January My other channel, Great Books Explained here - https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksexplained371 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon (and getting exclusive and uncensored content), thanks! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53686503 or if you prefer a one-off donation - https://paypal.me/GreatArtExplained?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Alternatively, every video has a "thanks" button under it- I appreciate it! Jacques-Louis David was the image-maker of revolutions, regimes, and empire. Born into a France simmering with discontent in the build up to Revolution, his life was marked by violence, ambition, and turbulence. He voted to execute a king, helped build the myth of a revolutionary republic, and when that republic imploded, he helped crown an emperor. Drawn repeatedly to authoritarian figures - from Robespierre and Marat to Napoleon Bonaparte - David couldn’t resist the magnetic pull of power. His 1801 masterpiece Napoleon Crossing the Alps reveals everything about David: his obsession with power, his taste for dramatic storytelling, and how seeing is believing. This is the story of art as propaganda. IMPORTANT! Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePD... I would like to thank all my Patreon supporters, in particular Alan Stewart, Alexander Velser, AMSN, Andrei Surei, Anja Zeutschel, Bria Nicole Art, Brian J Rich, David Asabreu, Ed Gobbi, "Elias', Eric Mann, Francis Song, Griffin Evans, Jemma Theivendran, Joe Kool, Jon Hanzen, Julio Cardenas, Kibibi Shaw, Louise Tait, Matthew Bondaryk, Mitch Kosowski, Monte St Johns, New Curiosity, Paul Ark, Paul Waterman, Daniel Rakovski, Sam Blakelock, Sean Welgemoed, Stephen Beresford, Tanya Moore, Theresa Garfink, and Toni Ko. "What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter (X) CREDITS Script co-written by Laura Beardsell-Moore Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88) Recording by Robert Lewis VIDEOS All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. MUSIC Bizet - Carmen Suite No1 Mozart - Requiem FILMS Napoleon - Abel Gance, 1927 ©Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Gaumont Napoleon - Ridley Scott, 2023 ©Apple TV+, Columbia Pictures Madame du Barry, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919 ©UFA GmbH, First National Pictures Un peuple et son roi, Pierre Schoeller, 2018 ©StudioCanal BOOKS Jacques-Louis David: au musée du Louvre Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman by Perrin Stein, Daniella Berman Ilya Repin (Great Painters) by G.IU. Sternin and Yelena Kirillina Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France by Norman Bryson Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.