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In particular the subject of the horrors of war occupied Jan Brueghel in the 1640s, when Europe was emerging from the Thirty Years' War. The long-hoped-for end of the war was achieved by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. A work made against this background is the Allegory of war (Lempertz 16 November 2013
Consequences of War, also known as Horror of war, [1] was executed between 1638 and 1639 by Peter Paul Rubens in oil paint on canvas. It was painted for Ferdinando II de' Medici . Although commissioned by an Italian, art historians characterize both the work and the artist as Flemish Baroque .
The Battle of Bouvines (painting) Battle of Britain (painting) Battle of Kliszów (painting) Battle of Klushino (painting) The Battle of Nancy; The Battle of Nazareth (Gros) Battle of Orsha (painting) The Battle of San Romano; The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242; The Battle of the Amazons (Rubens) The Battle of the Boyne (painting)
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Rubens painted the allegorical female figures, accompanied by a putto or a winged Cupid in Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Touch, and by a satyr in Taste.Brueghel created the sumptuous settings, which evoke the splendour of the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands, to which the two artists were attached. [1]
Artemisia Gentileschi – Allegory of Inclination (c. 1620), An Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown (1638); Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (c. 1638–39) The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the Thirty Years' War , with ...
The Vision of a Knight, also called The Dream of Scipio or Allegory, is a small egg tempera painting on poplar by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, finished in 1503–1504. [1] [2] It is in the National Gallery in London. It probably formed a pair with the Three Graces panel, also 17 cm square, now in the Château de Chantilly museum.
Fine art The painting depicts the Chios massacre perpetrated by the Ottomans during the Greek Revolution in April 1822. AedW I, p. 347; Motif group: Images of horror; The painting is placed in relation to Picasso's Guernica, moreover, in Delacroix's interpretation The Liberty Leads the People is listed as a comparison to previously created ...