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 ...

Before dying, his father made a decision that may have saved his son’s life: after his wife contracted smallpox, he ordered that Louis Philippe and his younger sister, Bathilde, be inoculated by the ...

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 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. This sculpture, The National Convention, is ...

Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps is one of the most famous and politically iconic images of European art history. However, it is a deepfake. In a Neoclassicist masterpiece painted on ...

David’s sketch portrays a large and animated group, many of whom are raising their arms in the so-called Roman salute. This further entrenched its pre-20th century association – even though that was ...

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. This sculpture, The National Convention ...

“Jacques-Louis David’s painting ‘The Oath of the Horatii’ [1784–5] seems to have started the idea of it being a Roman thing, but it really took off as a gesture in the 19th century ...

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 ...