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Death of Marat

1. The death of marat
The Death of Marat is a painting by Jacques-Louis David of the
murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is
one of the most famous images of the Revolution. David was
the leading French painter, as well as a Montagnard and a
member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security.
The painting shows the radical journalist lying dead in his bath
on 13 July 1793 after his murder by Charlotte Corday. Painted
in the months after Marat's murder, it has been described by
T. J. Clark as the first modernist painting, for "the way it took
the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it"