>>212296083david was a brilliant painter starting from the french revolution, he did the famous tennis court sketch, the famous roman salute doing all kinds of greco-roman triumphalism during the new republic, but when the violence got bad he begin to paint more moderately less glorified, marat was a propagandist for the jacobins, he had a debilitating illness that kept him in the bathtub for long durations, he proscribed people who were against the radicals by writting their names to be executed, he was later assassinated, which is an interesting story, anyway this is more about david since he became the personal painter to napoleon doing works like crossing the alp and the coronation, you can say marat is the changing point where he moved away from radicals in subject, it's hard to read how he feels about it since the story is more extraordinary than the painting