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"The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David

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Jean-Paul Marat was was one of the leaders of a radical faction active during the French Revolution. His brutal assassination, stabbed whilst in his bath, has been captured in this painting by neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. Find out why this painting was, itself, revolutionary.

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