The Loves of Paris and Helen is a 1788 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, showing Helen of Troy and Paris from...

mythological love story as its subject, after The Loves of Paris and Helen from 1788. It is visually very similar to that earlier work – the two paintings...

The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French...

prince Paris has kidnapped his brother Menelaus's wife, Helen. As a prophecy foretells that Achilles will die in Troy after the death of the Trojan prince...

Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē), also known as Helen of Troy, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure...

travel to Troy and fight in the Trojan War. In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus...

David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting the coronation of Napoleon at Notre-Dame de Paris. The oil painting has imposing dimensions – it is almost...

d'Estrées and one of her sisters) is a painting by an unknown artist dated c. 1594. It is in the Louvre in Paris and is usually thought to be the work of a painter...

The Abduction of Helen is a 1628-1629 oil on canvas painting by Guido Reni, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. In 1627, via his ambassadors in Italy,...

the shadowy background. The saint is dressed in furs, has long curly hair and is smiling in an enigmatic manner reminiscent of Leonardo's famous Mona Lisa...

The Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France...

shown, and is renowned for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The painting is currently owned by the Louvre Museum in Paris, which...

mention), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him—according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly. The Spartans'...

in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical...

dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638) plate 91 (noted by Haskell and Penny 225 and note 15). Kim J. Hartswick, The Gardens of Sallust: a Changing Landscape...

terms of France's acceptance of the Peace of Paris. The appointed French governor of Senegal, Colonel Julien-Désiré Schmaltz, and his wife and daughter...

Below is a list of selected paintings by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. Translated from the equivalent article on Russian Wikipedia plus additional...

Paris, France: Ernest Leroux. ISBN 9780483463967. Slanski, Kathryn E. (2012). "The Law of Hammurabi and its Audience". Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities...

Republic. It has normally been on display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797. The painting's global fame and popularity partly stem from its 1911 theft by...

Dynasty scribe on display at the Louvre List of ancient Egyptian scribes "The Seated Scribe | Louvre Museum | Paris". www.louvre.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-19. A...

especially the very pale skin of the women resting in the privacy of a bathing area. The figures are given an almost abstract and "slender and sinuous"...

and 'Een weerga, van ditto, niet minder' ('Similar by ditto, no less'). Between 1881 and 1888 it was sold by the Paris art dealer Léon Gauchez to the...

It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis, Egypt's capital during the 21st Dynasty and the 23rd Dynasty. It was created much earlier...

is in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance...

Agamemnon, and Helen of Troy. It portrays with great intensity the brutality and filth of the war, and the emotional state of Achilles and Patroclus....

version, the earlier of the two, is unrestored and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The other, which was restored between 2008 and 2010, hangs in the National...

Paris. A smaller replica, painted by Delacroix in 1844, is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Death of Sardanapalus is based on the tale of Sardanapalus...

The painting is sometimes wrongly thought to depict the French Revolution of 1789. Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris. By...

Persuading Helen to Love Paris or Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris is a 1790 oil on canvas painting by Angelica Kauffman. It is held in the Hermitage...

has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the return of the sculpture. In 1863,...