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*‘David’s style was an essentially personal interpretation of Neoclassical artistic rules. His pictures are simple in construction: ** all action is confined to the foreground & the colours he uses maintain cool, consistent tones. By means of this formal simplicity, the sentiments conveyed are made doubly arresting.

‘Like Rousseau, David felt that it was the artist's moral duty to paint elevated subjects and that those subjects should be rooted in ancient notions of virtue.'

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*cf [[Redbook10:10][19910512:1718q]{Neoclassical and Romantic Art [continued (17)]}{Neoclassical Painting}[12th May 1991],] 10

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 735-738

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