Illustrated by Napoleon's court painter Jacques-Louis David, "Oath of Horatii" is surrounded by other enormous works in The Red Rooms in the Denon wing of the Louvre, but it still commands ...

By Jason Farago For Jacques-Louis David it was “The Oath of the Horatii,” for Kazimir Malevich it was “Black Square,” for Virginia Woolf it was “Jacob’s Room,” for Amy Winehouse it ...