![]() ![]() ![]() In Rome he interacted with an international community of artists and intellectuals as he studied history, aesthetics, anatomy, and perspective. ![]() David won the coveted Roman fellowship prize the Prix de Rome in 1774 and lived and studied at the French Academy in Rome until 1779. Through Sedaine, David came into contact with Enlightenment intellectuals such as Denis Diderot (1713 –1784) who influenced his aesthetic development and ideas. As a student, David lived in the Louvre with his tutor, Michel Sedaine, who was secretary of the Royal Academy of Architecture in addition to being a playwright. He attended the Coll ège des Quatre Nations and studied art with the neoclassical painter Joseph-Marie Vien at the Acad émie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was related to the famous rococo painter Fran çois Boucher (1703 –1770). David was born in Paris to a middle-class family of merchants. DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS (1748 –1825), French painter. ![]()
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