“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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For the second time, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day Monday in Washington, D.C., by raising his right hand and putting his left hand on top of a Bible.

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 ...

He had been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the Oath Keepers militia, also was released shortly after midnight on Tuesday in Cumberland, Maryland. Trump ...