In a Neoclassicist masterpiece painted on the eve of the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David depicts the beginning of an epic Roman story in The Oath of the Horatii. Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Supporters of Elon Musk claimed his "Nazi salute" was actually a "Roman salute," but historians said there was never such a thing.

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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 ...

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 '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 ...

Donald Trump’s ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk has triggered a controversy with a hand gesture at the inaugural parade in Washington DC. Many have compared it to the Nazi salute. However, experts are divided.