Whether you are an Elon Musk supporter or an avid hater, you must know about the recent controversy that Musk is surrounded ...

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

President Donald Trump was inaugurated and sworn in as the United States’ 47th president. The inauguration had various ...

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

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 ...

Tarrio and Rhodes are, respectively, the leaders of the extremist street gang the Proud Boys and the founder and leader of the anti-government “militia” the Oath Keepers. Those two groups ...