Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has held a long relationship with Maurice Ravel's music. One of his earliest recital programs was to present the complete works for the Frenchman. Ravel, himself a modest ...

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

The Ancient Romans have been depicted by artists in paintings with their arms extended with their palms facing downward, such as The Oath of Horatii by Jacques-Louis David in 1785. Yet, other news ...

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 ...

Jacques-Louis David's 'Oath of the Horatii' (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images) His Oath of the Horatii, completed in 1785, depicts three Roman brothers honouring their father with straight ...

The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David (1784 and 1785) It was during the period of the French Revolution that the gesture was invented by revolutionary republicans who framed their ...

The Roman-esque works of art, such as The Oath of the Horatii, only bear a passing resemblance to what people are now calling the “Roman salute.” In a follow-up video response to someone ...

“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 ...

Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes were both free from prison on Tuesday. Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, the head of the Oath Keepers, were released Tuesday ...

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