In a portrait from this historical period, an African-born man in formal dress poses with his elbow on a marble bust. A socialite displays the fashions of this historical period in a portrait in which she reclines on a backless sofa, wears a very high-waisted white gown, and sports a Titus cut. During his turn to “Greek” style in this period, an artist painted Hersilia throwing herself between Tatius and Romulus to represent peace. The Académie (“ah-cahd-ay-MEE”) ceased operation during this period. Neoclassical painters of this period emphasized civic virtue in works like The Intervention of the Sabine Women, as well as a painting in which a politician drops a quill to the floor and holds a bloodied letter. For 10 points, Jacques-Louis David painted a politician of what period in his bathtub in The Death of Marat ■END■
ANSWER: French Revolution [or Révolution française; accept the 1790s; accept Revolutionary France, the First French Republic, the Directory, the French Consulate, the First French Empire, or Napoleonic France; prompt on the 1700s; prompt on the Revolution; reject “Revolution of 1830,” “Second Empire,” “Second Republic,” or “Third Republic”] (The first two paintings are Girodet’s Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy for Saint-Domingue and David’s Portrait of Madame Récamier.)
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