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Portrait mythologique de la famille de Louis XIV
305 x 420 cm, oil on canvas by Jean Norcet, created in 1670 and hung in Chateau de Versailles. The painting portrays Louis the XIV and his family as various Roman dieties. The references to Roman gods shows the power Louis XIV tried to cultivate. -
Frontispiece of Diderot's Encyclopædia
An engraving by Bonaventure-Louis Prévost, made in 1772, which became the frontispiece of the Encyclopædia. Itdepicts Reaon, Truth and Philosophy as godesses within an ionic temple with philosophers gazing upwards. The engraving shows how Diderot validated his quest for knowledge by comparing himself to the Greek philosophers. -
The Oath of the Horatii
A 330 x 425 cm oil on canvas done by Jacque-Louis David in 1784 and hung in the Musée du Louvre. The neoclassical paintng depicts three brothers ready to lay down their life for Rome. The brothers' loyalty to Rome mirrors the patriotism felt during the French Revolution. -
Greece Expressing Gratitude
A 215 x 157 cm oil on canvas done by Theodore Vryzakis in 1858. Vryzakis, a romantic painter, painted this twenty years after the war of indepdenance. The devotion to the personification of Greece as a woman from antiquity relfects the nationalism of the time -
Bloody Sunday
An image of Bloody Sunday, the 1905 workers protest turned massacre. In the image workers can be seen marching on the Narva Triumphal Arch and demanding increased rights. At the Arch they are confronted by tsarist soldiers -
Adolf Hitler giving the Nazi salute during a rally in 1939
A photo of Hitler giving the Nazi salute during a rally in 1939. The Nazi salute, The salute was thought to be an ancient Roman salute, and its mandatory implimentation shows the associations Nazi Germany tried to cultivate with Imperial Rome.
