David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women발음듣기
David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women
(jazzy music) [Male] We're in the Louvre and we're looking at a late Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women.발음듣기
We're actually located very specifically in Rome, in the Forum, and we can see rising above the capital of Rome itself.발음듣기
The story, very quickly, is that the Romans, who had no women, attack the Sabine, a neighboring tribe, and ran off with their women.발음듣기
Here we have Hersilia, who is now the wife of the Roman leader, Romulus, the king of the Romans, and also daughter of Female: The king of the Sabines.발음듣기
This is just a few years after the outrageous violence of the Reign of Terror at the end of the French Revolution.발음듣기
He was in prison because of his participation in the Reign of Terror, the most radical period of the revolution, the fact that he had been a follower of Robespierre who had just been beheaded.발음듣기
The fact that women play such a pivotal role here is so different from all David's earlier work where men are really the actors.발음듣기
Women are all generally very passive, very emotional, very concerned about their own selfish needs, and here those needs become the pivot to turning the state around.발음듣기
[Male] If we did turn around, we would be looking at the Oath of the Horatii, which hangs directly opposite this painting;발음듣기
David's early masterpiece that does completely make women ineffectual and places them in the position there associated with emotion which is subordinate to the needs of the state.발음듣기
Another female figure opens her arms and looks over toward the King of the Sabines and holds her arms open saying, "Look at the children; think about the children."발음듣기
[Male] What's so interesting is if you look at the two male protagonists, they are focused only on each other; so much so, that they actually don't see the world around them.발음듣기
[Female] While Romulus and Tatius, the King of the Sabines, focus exclusively on each other, another soldier on horseback to the right understands what's about to happen here and puts his sword away.발음듣기
[Male] That's right. Another nude turns his horse around and walks away from the field of battle.발음듣기
[Female] Although this may look generally Classical to us, David was looking for something specifically Greek.발음듣기
If you think about the Oath of the Horatii, those Romans are fully clothed; but here he's really looking back to Greek sculptures and to that particularly Greek idea of the celebration of the human body.발음듣기
[Female] As we're standing here and I'm looking at the figure of Hersilia, this really strong female figure that so dominates the canvas with her breasts revealed through the drapery, these beautiful folds of drapery that highlight her womb, her legs spread with children in between.발음듣기
We know that David was imprisoned and visited by his wife Male: Even though she was estranged.발음듣기
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