Oath of the Horatii

Oath of the Horatti is an oil painting produced in 1784 by French painter Jacques Louis David.

Oath of the Horatti is considered as one of the best known paintings in the Neoclassical style by Jacques Louis David.

The picture depicts a scene of a dispute between two warring cities from a Roman legend, Rome and Alba Longa stresses the importance of self-sacrifice, masculine and patriotism for one’s country. The history tell us that instead sending their armies to war the two cities agree to choose three men from their own each city, the man who won the fight will be the regarded as the victorious man and victorious city. So, three brothers from a Roman family (namely the Horatii) agreed to fight with the three brothers from a family of Alba Longa (namely the Curiatii) resulting the winner by the end of war. The three brothers of Rome, willing to sacrifice their lives are shown in the picture, saluting their father who holds their swords out for them.

” Fallen Angel ” by Alexandre Cabanel

Year: 1868 / Type: oil, canvas / Location: Private Collection

”Leonidas at Thermopylae” by Jacques-Louis David/ Year 1814

The Battle of Thermopylae pitted an alliance of Greek city-states, led by Sparta, against the Persian army under the reign of Xerxes I. It is remembered today mostly for the bravery of the Spartan leader Leonidas, who held the Persians at bay for two days by guarding the only passable road. The Persian army then discovered a path that led behind the Greek lines. Leonidas dismissed the vast majority of the army and kept only a small contingent of 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans, almost all of whom were killed. This famous image of Leonidas was created over two thousand of years later by the French court painter Jacques-Louis David.

”BELISARIUS AT THE GATES OF CONSTANTINOPLE”

BY GIOVANNI PAOLO PANINI

Type: Oil on canvas

Historical Period: Rococo-1720-1780

SubjectCapriccio: Architecture

School: Italian – Roman

”Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix
Year 1830 / Location : Musée du Louvre France , Paris

Liberty leading the people is a painting usually associated with the July Revolution of 1830 in France. It is a large canvas showing a busty woman in the center raising a flag and holding a bayonet. She is barefoot, and walks over the bodies of the defeated, guiding a crowd around her. This is probably the most famous artwork of Delacroix, who is known as the most important artist of Romanticism

” Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII ”

by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Year 1854

Location: Louvre Museum in Paris.

The Death of Priam, 1785 by Jean-Baptiste Regnault oil/canvas .

”The Course of Empire: Destruction ” Year 1836 by
Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole

The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 is a 1783 large oil painting by John Singleton Copley

In 1781, France invaded the Channel Island of Jersey. It was successfully defended by the British – an important victory at a time when they were failing in their war with America ( American war of Independence ) and about to lose control of their American colonies. This painting celebrates the victory and commemorates the death of Major Francis Peirson and his refusal to surrender.