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Jacques-Louis David's The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons is a gruesome and compelling painting

  • Written by: Mark Ledbury, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Sydney
Jacques-Louis David's The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons is a gruesome and compelling paintingJacques-Louis David, The Lictors bringing to Brutus the bodies of his dead sons, 1789 Paris, Louvre.Musée du Louvre

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