How Did Jacques-Louis David Contribute To Italian

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Before Jacques-Louis David traveled to Italy, he was working alongside Francis Boucher, a renowned Rococo painter. In order to pursue his career further, he traveled to Rome, Italy with Vien after receiving a scholarship to an academy. He closely observed the Italian artwork and noted its variation on lights and shadows, and liveliness. He was mainly influenced by Caravaggio's style of artwork and similar artists like Valentin de Bologne and Nicolas Poussin. He replicated Bologne's The Last Supper which helped him learn how to play with different lighting and sketch sculpted figures. He was also inspired by the strict composition and fluid figures that Poussin incorporated in The Rape of the Sabine Women. He decided to leave behind the French