Oath of the Horatii pupil Jean-Germaine Drouais who had himself recently won the Prix de Rome. Ultimately, David's picture manifests a progressive outlook, deeply influenced by Enlightenment ideas, that eventually contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy. As the French Revolution approached, paintings increasingly referred to the loyalty to the state rather than the family or the church. Painted five years before the Revolution, the "Oath of the Horatii" reflects the political tensions of the period. In 1789, David painted "The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons", a picture that was also a royal commission. Shortly afterward, the king went up
The World Tossed at Tennis is thin. The fashion for yellow bands lasted in Court circles until the mid-1620s. The World Tossed at Tennis The World Tossed at Tennis is a Jacobean era masque composed by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, first published in 1620. It was likely acted on 4 March 1620 (new style) at Denmark House. Middleton and Rowley conducted one of the most interesting collaborative efforts in English Renaissance drama; together they produced significant works, "The Changeling" and "A Fair Quarrel". Their only masque is one of the stranger and more original literary products of their generation. "A Courtly Masque; the Device