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Jacques-Louis David completed The Oath of the Horatii in Rome in 1784 and exhibited it at the Paris Salon the following year. It stopped the room then. It still stops rooms now — visible here on the deep terracotta wall of the Louvre’s Denon Wing, large enough to command the …
The bronze is Roman, from the Albani Collection, and it sits now in the Louvre’s antiquities hall on a plinth of dark marble, moving through nothing. …
In the Greek and Roman antiquities hall of the Louvre, in a room of vaulted ceilings and warm museum light, four marble figures stand back-to-back …
Denis Foyatier carved this Spartacus in 1830 and put him in the Louvre’s Cour Puget, where he has stood ever since in a room of arched windows and …
