Fine art humor: Death of Marat - Jacques Louis David - Cartoon by Martin Missfeldt

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Jacques Louis David
"Der Tod des Marat"
1793
Öl auf Leinwand
165 x128 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel

Death of Marat - Jacques Louis David

Jacques Louis Davids Gemälde shows the dying Marat in the bath recumbent with a paper in the hand which manifests his last words.

Jean-Paul Marat was at first a doctor and teacher, before he itself, aroused enthusiasm by him aim to the French revolution, dedicated to the policy. He became as a newspaper publisher the megaphone of the masses which chose him the representative of the National Assembly. As such he fought on most sharp ones against the Konterrevolutionisten. In 1793 he was knifed by Charlotte Corday with a long culinary knife. More about Jean Paul Marat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

The giraffe's portrait shows Marats long neck limpy on the bathroom to ground recumbent. However, the neck is wrapped by a rope which is fastened on the left beyond the picture or is held. Indeed, his murderer Charlotte Corday is not to be seen in the picture, nevertheless, she is present (historically seen). Whether the creators of the farm saying combined here probably c fancy one such picture. Hardly conceivably, but her wisdom would probably be rather a scandal: " If June Is warm and wet, there is a lot of cabbage and even more grass ".

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