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S04E06: HUM 223 Wk4: The Man in the Bathtub: David, Marat, and the Revolution's Search for a Savior
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The Man in the Bathtub: David, Marat, and the Revolution's Search for a Savior
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July 13, 1793. A young woman with a kitchen knife walks into a Paris apartment where a sick revolutionary is working from his bathtub. What happens next inspired one of the most famous paintings in the world, and a strange new kind of faith. In this episode of History Chats with Dr. S, we follow the painter Jacques-Louis David from the pastel world of the Rococo to the marble-hard ideals of Neoclassicism, through the French Revolution and into the court of Napoleon, and we ask why a…
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