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Thermopylae Museum

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Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Thermopylae Museum
Phone:
+30 2231 093054

Address:
Thermopylae, Greece

Leonidas at Thermopylae is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. The massive painting has the dimensions of about thirteen feet by seventeen and a half feet and was completed in 1814. The convoluted piece took David almost fifteen years to complete, with him separating his work into two periods from 1799 to 1803 and 1813-1814. Leonidas at Thermopylae was purchased, along with The Intervention of the Sabine Women, in November of 1819 for 100,000 francs by Louis XVIII, the king of France at the time. The piece shows the Spartan king Leonidas prior to the Battle of Thermopylae. David's pupil Georges Rouget collaborated on it.
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