In reality, it was another Frenchman, Jacques-Louis David, who introduced it in his 1784 Roman history painting Oath of the Horatii. Truth be told, I’m conflicted about keeping the offending ...

Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week’s conclave.

In a powerful display of solidarity, more than 200 local attorneys raised their right hands Thursday at the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle and repeated in unison the oath they took ...

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Although there is no historical evidence that the early Roman Empire used the arm-out salute, a 1784 painting, “The Oath of the Horatii,” showed several Roman soldiers giving such a salute.

Some people claim that it could be the “Roman salute.” The Roman salute originated from a painting called “The Oath of the Horatii” (1785) by Jacques-Louis David. Many other painters and artists ...

“The salute gesture was understood to be the Roman salute, popularized by [Jacques-Louis David]’s The Oath of the Horatii, referring to a story from early Roman history,” Halabi said. In the painting, ...

Even earlier, in 1784, he portrayed similar segregation in his painting ‘Oath of the Horatii’. David seemed to betray in his paintings a belief that a man’s job was to make sacrifices which reaped the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...