Talk:Oath of the Horatii

Ye olde
ABSOLUTELY. The source is Livy, Book I, XXVI (Loeb Classical Edition) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.136.34.169 (talk) 02:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Are there any sources for the claims added by User:207.200.116.12? Specifically "The Horatii brothers had sisters as well. One sister was engaded to a Curiatii, and a Curiatii girl was married to a Horaitii man. Upon defeat of the Curatii, the remaining Horatii journyed home to find his sister cursing rome over the death of her fiance. The Horatii brother killed her, horrified of Rome being cursed".


 * The rest of that edit reads like an essay and should be removed.
 * Facts about the story belong into Horatii, not the article about the painting. Rl 08:44, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This seems to suggest that User:207.200.116.12 is right. I'll remove the offending text and try integrating it with Horatii. –Ham 19:08, 25 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The "offending text" is entirely accurate. It is also relevant because it partly explains the despair of the women, and it is worth noting that David at first intended to decpict the death of the sister at the hands of her brother. I am reinstating it. Paul B 20:36, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Can someone please clarify what is meant by "...with his work Érasistrate découvrant the cause of the disease are in Antiochius d'amour pour Stratonice." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.28.88 (talk) 04:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Horatii and Republican Ideas
''they [the brothers] are citadels of republican patriotism. They are symbols of the highest virtues of the Republic''

I'm not entirely sure this is true, there is no evidence to suggest David was a republican at this time, furthermore the story of the Horatii was set at a time when Rome still had Kings (see Levy's 'Painting and Sculpture in 18th Century France'). I may change it to something about brotherhood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dalisback1 (talk • contribs) 22:42, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Image
It would be nice if the image on this entry could be changed to the actual 1785 autograph version at the Louvre (or at least change the information below it). The Girodet copy is lovely, but it's deceiving (for example, the spindle and thread on the floor is not in the original work), especially since one isn't alerted to the fact that the image on screen *isn't* the Louvre version until one clicks through. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfripp (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I made the change you suggest. I agree that it is inappropriate to show an image of the smaller 1786 version when the subject of this article is clearly David's original 1784 painting. The 1784 version in the Louvre is the more significant from the point of view of art history. (Nevertheless, it might be uncharitable to call the smaller painting, which currently hangs in Toledo, "the Girodet copy" since there is some dispute over how much work on the Toledo painting was done by Girodet and how much was done by David himself. In fact, the Toledo painting probably warrants its own Wikipedia article, or at least an explicit mention in this article.) --NikolaiSmith (talk) 20:42, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I've added the 1876 one lower down; I see I was the one who inadvertently introduced it in February, not realizing. Oops! Commons should make the difference clearer. Johnbod (talk) 02:09, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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brothers or triplets?
From memory I think they were not two sets of three brothers, but more specifically two sets of triplets. Maybe you can check that out? Vince Calegon (talk) 09:15, 30 August 2018 (UTC)