1793年7月13日,一个雅各宾派记者让-保尔·马拉在家中被害。同年,著名的雅各宾派画家雅克-路易·大卫创作了以该事件为题材的油画《马拉之死》。如同许多评论家指出的那样,这幅画通过去除所有的动作、所有的寓言人物以及弱化所有的谋杀痕迹,成功地创作出一副革命者圣像,成为法国大革命史上的经典作品。画家大卫也得以名噪一时。尽管在雅各宾派倒台之后,这位拥护自由、平等、博爱的艺术家成为法兰西帝国执政者拿破仑的宫廷画家,但他所创作 On July 13, 1793, Jean-Paul Mara, a Jacobin journalist, was killed at home. In the same year, Jacques-Louis David, a famous Jacobian painter, created the painting “The Death of Mala” with the theme of the incident. As many commentators have pointed out, the painting succeeded in creating a icon of the revolutionaries by removing all movements, all allegory figures and all traces of murder, becoming a classic in the history of the French Revolution. David was also famous for the artist. Although this liberal, equal, fraternity artist became the court painter of Napoleon, the ruler of the French Empire, after the fall of Jacobin, he created