In reality, it was another Frenchman, Jacques-Louis David, who introduced it in his 1784 Roman history painting Oath of the Horatii. Truth be told, I’m conflicted about keeping the offending ...

Now hanging in the Louvre, the original masterpiece by Jacques Louis David measures over 10 feet on each side. The monumental scale, stark lighting, emotional subject matter, and distinct ...

Louis Philippe’s father bore the same name, was the Duke of Chartres, and was married to Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti. Together, they formed the most important marriage in French aristocracy, to ...

The salute was first used during the French Revolution by The National Assembly, who were inspired by a Roman painting. “The salute gesture was understood to be the Roman salute, popularized by ...

The best example of this classicising invention is Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting, The Oath of the Horatii, which shows the three patriotic Horatii brothers giving an oath to defend the republic ...

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The artist Jacques-Louis David is credited with popularising the image. His neoclassical paintings drew heavily on themes from Roman history, with the embellishment of the straight-armed salute.

The best example of this classicizing invention is Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting, The Oath of the Horatii, which shows the three patriotic Horatii brothers giving an oath to defend the ...

The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David (1784 and 1785). Later examples include a 1921 sculpture by François-Léon Siccard in the Paris Panthéon.

Instead, he points to the neoclassical French painter Jacques-Louis David, who gave the salute its first major cultural moment in his 1784 painting The Oath of Horatii.

It was seen for the first time in French painter Jacques-Louis David’s painting “Oath of the Horatii” created in 1784. While Hitler made the salute his own, it was used by fascists in Italy. The ...

As David chose to emphasise this classical segregation despite already having altered the facts of the depicted story, one cannot help but wonder whether David saw any place for women in the impending ...