The Intervention on the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David

In The Sabine Women Hersilia, the woman in the center stands arms out stretched so as to, as the title suggests intervene between two opposing soldiers who happen to be her father and her husband. Her husband, Romulus on the right, stand beautifully posed the pristine contour of his angle and fair muscular definition helps the viewer more clearly define him as the hero of the scene. While his rival and Hersilia’s father, Tatius on the left, though he is still rendered as an ideal nude, he stands in a peculiar imperfect pose suggesting his demise.