Jacques Louis David ja Prantsuse Revolutsioon
republican when he painted the Horatii."(Roberts, 1989, p.18)
Moreover, in 1978 Thomas crow, an American art historian, published an article which
revived the historical dispute about David's intentions with his Horatii. Crow claimed that
Horatii was definitely a prerevolutionary painting and that Ettlinger's idea of Horatii being
republican is false. (Roberts, 1989, p.19)
In 1781 David exhibited his painting Belisarius, which was based on a legend of Belisarius,
who was a victorious and noble military general falsely accused of betrayal. (Rosenblum,
Woldemar, 1984, p.25) Same misfortune happened to one general in France:
"The legend was especially popular in the late eighteenth century, not only because of its
dramatic ingredient of grim misfortune, but because it offered a historical counterpart to the
contemporary scandal of a French general, the Count de Lally, who, after mismanaging a
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