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How Jacques Louis David's study of Brutus gives you permission to be subjective

"I think David got at some essential aspect of being a parent."

"I think David got at some essential aspect of being a parent."

Curator Perrin Stein on "The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons"
by Jacques Louis David.

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Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.

Jacques Louis-David: The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
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