Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804.

Oil on canvas.

This is art under Napoleon.

Gros is a student of Jacques-Louis David - an advocate for neoclassism style.

The interest in the exotic, along w/ emphasis on death, suffering & an emotional rendering of the scene, foreshadowed prominent aspects of Romanticism.

Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808, (1815).

Spanish Romanticism.

Enhances emotional drama of tragedy through stark use of darks and lights & extending the time frame depicted.   Central man spreads arms wide in Christ-like stance. Resistance & Patriotism.