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LESSON 4 · From Excess to Order: Rococo & Neoclassicism

PAUSE TO THINK

Which painting became Neoclassicism's revolutionary poster image?

David's Oath of the Horatii

Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii (1784) broke from Rococo frills with stark composition, heroic poses, and Roman civic virtue. It became an unofficial manifesto for the French Revolution five years later.

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