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David
Second of the Israelite kings (r.c.1000-c.962 BC). David was an aide at the court of Saul until the monarch's jealousy forced him into outlawry. He became king of Israel on Saul's death. He captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made it his capital, defeated the Philistines, and gained control of many bordering kingdoms. He faced several revolts, incl. one by his third son, Absalom. He unified all Israel into one kingdom and made Jerusalem both the religious and political center. He made all other names for God mere titles or attributes for Israel's god Yahweh, who was worshiped in Jerusalem. Though the kingdom split under David's son and successor Solomon, religious unity endured, and the house of David symbolized the bond between God and Israel. The word messiah comes from hameshiach, the title of kings of the line of David.

Netherlandish painter. He worked mainly in Bruges, where he entered the painters' guild in 1484 and became dean in 1501. He became the city's leading painter after the death of H. Memling. Most of his works are altarpieces and other panels featuring traditional religious themes, but his best-known paintings, The Judgment of Cambyses and The Flaying of Sisamnes (1498), deal with the theme of justice; they originally hung in the town hall of Bruges. His works are among the earliest Flemish paintings to feature the Italian Renaissance iconography of putti (male child angels) and garlands.

French painter. At 18 he entered the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1775 he went to Rome and became a proponent of the Neoclassical style, but also studied the work of such 17th-cent. painters as N. Poussin and Caravaggio. He soon prospered as a painter of historical events and classical themes. He became the unchallenged painter of the French Revolution, and later was appointed official portraitist to Napoleon. He was a founding member of the new Institut de France, which replaced the Royal Academy, and produced commemorative medals and other revolutionary propaganda. Among his masterpieces is The Death of Marat (1793), an expression of universal tragedy as well as a portrayal of a key event of the French Revolution. He was best known as a painter of mythological and historical subjects, a great portraitist, and the principal exponent of Neoclassicism. His influence on European art was pervasive; his pupils included A.-J. Gros and J.-A.-D. Ingres.

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