Marat was a French Revolutionary in 1793, good friend of Robspierre, and writer of the most radical and revolutionary newspaper at the time. He was assasinated by a woman named Charlotte Corday in his bathtub as he was writing and relaxing in a cold bath, as he often did in order to relieve pain from a weird and unnatural skin disease that he had. Charlotte Corday believed that the only way to save France was to kill Marat, and she was obsessed with the idea of murdering him to the point that she actually stabbed him.
One of the most famous Romantic Painting in Art History is a depiction of this by
Jacques- Louis David. 
However, lesser known is the image done by
Edvard Munch of the same topic:
So what does this mean about perception? Which one am I supposed to sympathize with and which one is more powerful? And in that case, what really matters? The truth or the power portrayed?
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