Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 1266: Death of Marat
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The day passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was the afternoon of the next day.
After visiting famous attractions such as the Grand Place and the Atomium in Brussels, and touring the Old City of Brussels, Ye Tian and the others came to the famous Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium is the most important art museum in Belgium. It was built more than 200 years ago and is located in Cotenberg, downtown Brussels.
This art museum houses more than 20,000 paintings and sculptures from the 15th century to the present, including many representative works by top artists.
Especially the ‘Rubens Hall’ located in this art museum, which houses more than twenty outstanding paintings by the Baroque master Rubens. It is the famous museum with the largest collection of Rubens paintings in the world.
In addition, there is also a collection of the immortal work "The Death of Marat" created by Jacques-Louis David, the founder of the French neoclassical school and a famous painter.
This classic work in the history of the French Revolution can be said to be the most important collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. It is also the treasure of this famous museum and is priceless.
After visiting the famous 'Rubens Hall', Ye Tian and Betty continued to walk in this famous museum, admiring the many paintings and sculptures collected and displayed here, and wandering in the ocean of art.
A few meters behind the two of them, followed by Anderson and French translator Louis, as well as Taylor and Lisa who were in charge of security.
A little further away, there were two Belgian police detectives in plain clothes, following step by step, their eyes always fixed on Ye Tian, not daring to relax for a moment.
As for Walker and the others, they are still pretending to be tourists visiting Brussels, waiting outside this famous museum, ready to provide support at any time.
The security personnel and related staff of the Royal Museum of Art, as well as the many tourists visiting here, as well as several young painters and students who copied the works of the masters.
Almost everyone here noticed and recognized Ye Tian. During the tour, everyone would look at them from time to time, and everyone's eyes were full of curiosity!
Why did this guy Steven appear in Europe and Brussels? Could this guy have discovered a treasure in Europe or Brussels and is he here for the treasure?
In response to the attention of the people around them, Ye Tian and the others seemed to have never seen them before. They visited the museum freely and admired the exquisite works of art, which was very comfortable.
It didn't take long for the group of them to arrive in front of "The Death of Marat", then they stopped and began to carefully appreciate this classic work from the French Revolution.
This is a large oil painting about 1.67 meters high and 1.3 meters wide. It was created in 1793 by Jacques-Louis David, the founder of the French neoclassical school of painting and a famous painter.
The content reflected in the painting is the scene of the assassination of Jacobin leader Paul Marat during the French Revolution, which is a very famous historical event.
"The Death of Marat" deliberately creates a space that belongs to the poor. In a small, closed and shabby room, Marat collapsed in the bathtub, holding a pen in one hand and a letter stained with blood in the other.
The brushstrokes in the upper half of this oil painting are loose and messy, and the blurred background may be a wall, or it may just be an ambiguous space, representing eternal nothingness.
The rough and flat wooden box in the lower half of the oil painting, which serves as a desk, has very delicate brushstrokes. You can clearly see the words and lines on it, as if it is telling the virtues of Marat.
This oil painting created an icon of a revolutionary by removing all movement, allegorical figures, and weakening all traces of murder, and thus became a classic work in the history of the French Revolution.
Standing still, Ye Tian carefully admired the famous oil painting hanging on the wall for a while, and then began to explain it to Betty and the others in a low voice.
"The oil painting in front of us is the famous "The Death of Marat". It is a classic work during the French Revolution and is the treasure of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Paul Marat, a famous French politician and revolutionary, was one of the leaders of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. His political stance was very radical and his methods of dealing with enemies were extremely harsh.
After the founding of the First French Republic, Marat began to fiercely oppose the rule of the Girondins in the "Friends of the People" founded by himself, which was later the "French Republic".
It was his behavior that soon brought death to himself. After the Jacobins took power in June 1793, Marat emphasized the establishment of a revolutionary dictatorship and the use of violence to establish freedom.
Marat implemented his radical revolutionary ideas with practical actions. The Jacobins he led launched **** killings in Paris and France, sending many enemies to the guillotine!
Not long after, on July 13, Marat was assassinated in his apartment in Paris by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin supporter disguised as a revolutionary, which shocked the whole of France.
The next day, France held a National Assembly. A representative spoke at the assembly, calling on the painter Jacques-Louis David to take up his paintbrush to avenge Marat and make the enemy tremble when they saw Marat being stabbed.
Jacques-Louis David was the founder of the French neoclassical school and one of the most famous painters at that time. He was also a radical revolutionary and a member of the French National Assembly.
As a close friend of Marat, he accepted this task and immediately rushed to the scene of the incident to understand the situation. He drew a portrait of the dead Marat and made a plaster mask as a reference for Marat's image.
Next, he moved the dagger left by the female assassin and the bathtub where Marat died back to the studio as a basis for creation, and quickly created a sketch of the scene of Marat's assassination.
Subsequently, he spent about three months to create this immortal painting with deep revolutionary friendship, and wrote the inscription in his own hand: 'Dedicated to Marat, the friend of the people'
When creating this painting, Jacques-Louis David used a strong and powerful brush to depict the scene of the assassination of a revolutionary leader in a realistic way. The picture is dark and gloomy, full of tragedy.
The composition of this painting is bright, simple and solemn, omitting all details that are irrelevant to the overall situation. Half of the painting is occupied by a dark and deep background, which makes people almost breathless.
The most eye-catching thing on the picture is the corpse color of Mala's skin, the yellow of the wooden box, the green of the blanket, and the white of the sheets and paper, all of which are presented to the maximum extent, forming a strong contrast.
Mara was leaning in the bathtub, one hand hanging limply outside, the other hand holding a letter, his head tilted back, his expression calm, as if he was taking a nap with his eyes closed, and blood was flowing out of his chest.
What this famous oil painting expresses is a famous historical moment that shook people's hearts, reflecting a real revolutionary era of passion and ideals, bloodshed and death.
When appreciating this famous painting filled with sad beauty, everyone can feel a heavy pressure on their face, and at the same time, they can also feel a shocking power.
In the painter's works, Marat is portrayed as a saint, a hero who has died but still lives forever, a person beautified by kindness, integrity and selfless patriotism.
Jacques-Louis David used the brush in his hand to paint a major historical event such as Marat's assassination into a dramatic, shocking and immortal masterpiece.
Throughout the history of world art, this famous oil painting has a very important historical position. It is the epitome of a great revolutionary era and can be called one of the miracles in the history of modern art.
We are coming to Belgium this time. The reason why we live in Brussels is that I want to come here to appreciate this immortal masterpiece and the twenty-odd outstanding works of Rubens."
"You are right, dear, standing in front of this painting, I have a sad feeling, I can feel a huge pressure, and my mood instantly becomes much heavier.
When we were in school, we saw this famous painting in an art appreciation class, but it wasn’t until this moment that I truly felt the power contained in this immortal masterpiece, which is enough to shock people! "
Betty said softly, with a rather solemn expression, her eyes always staring at the immortal masterpiece in front of her.
Ye Tian nodded slightly, then picked up what he had just said and continued to explain the famous painting in front of him.
"There have been completely different evaluations in history about the protagonist of this immortal painting, the revolutionary Marat, and the other protagonist hidden outside the picture, the female assassin Corday..."