My first choice of French painter, Jacques-Louis David's work is Napoleon Crossing the Alps. As important as the Church of the Taste of Blood was and still is important to Russia, Jacques-Louis David was important for revolutionary France. He lived in a very turbulent period in the history of France. He was a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and the idea of ​​overthrowing the monarchy. As the French Revolution came closer to reality, David moved away from a typical classical subject he had been trained to paint and turned his brushes and imagination towards depicting the political events surrounding him and France. One of the most iconic historical paintings has become Napoleon Crossing the Alps. The work is neoclassical, because it refers to the equestrian portrait of antiquity and modeled on a classical ideal. Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as Joseph Stalin, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Elizabeth I and many other significant rulers in the history of mankind were praised or openly hated. Napoleon Bonaparte is no exception. Napoleon Bonaparte has always been, and still is...