CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Esoteric Cosmology, Horatii, Mathematically Correct

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 287
• Professor: Jonathan Ribner

Document Summary

Shows defiance of jacque louis david (late, too large, wrong subject) invented the artists" role with the patron and the audience/public source: renaissance rational space mathematically correct/ baroque theatricality. History painting was the highest form/genre: involves all skills/talents, master of sources and erudite material. This painting occupies an extremely important place in the body of david"s work and in the history of french painting. It was commissioned by the administrator of royal residences in. 1784 and exhibited at the 1785 salon under the title the oath of the horatii, between their. We are in the period of the wars between. It has been decided that the dispute between the two cities must be settled by an unusual form of combat to be fought by two groups of three champions each. The two groups are the three horatii brothers and the three curiatii brothers.