Jacques-Louis David’s The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons is a history painting: a kind of art that attempts to give visual life to stories from history, religion and myth.

Jacques-Louis David’s The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons is a history painting: a kind of art that attempts to give visual life to stories from history, religion and myth. This ...

“The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons,” by Jacques ... consuls sitting in shadows as his officers bring in the corpses of his two sons — whom he had executed for alleged ...