Khan Academy: David Study for the Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

In this video [2:51] Met curator Perrin Stein on subjectivity in Jacques-Louis David's Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1787. The canvas depicts an episode from the life of Lucius Junius Brutus, who put to an end the brutal regime of Tarquin, Rome's last king, and established the first Roman Empire, only to later find his two sons embroiled in a royalist conspiracy. True to his political convictions, Brutus condemned his sons to death.