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A work made against this background is the Allegory of war (Lempertz 16 November 2013, Cologne Lot 1243). The work is full of symbols of war and strife such as weapons, fighting animals, zodiac symbols of bad luck in the heavens, the furies , a burning city, the god of war and the battling troops in the background which all evoke the theme of ...
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 .
Air (painting) Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power; The Allegory of Faith; Allegory of Fortune; Allegory of Painting and Sculpture; Allegory of the Dutch Defeat of the Spanish Fleet in Gibraltar; Allegory of the Earth; Allegory of the Vanities of the World; Allegory of Vanity and Repentance; Allegory of Wealth; Apollo and Diana ...
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]
[1] As an allegory, the job of this painting is to convey a moral message, that of the superiority of virtue over vice. The genre of allegory contrasts with Veronese's well-known tableaus of historical and biblical scenes, such as the Marriage at Cana as well as with the less formal works of other Renaissance Venetian painters like Giorgione or ...
The work is a 217 cm (85 in) × 211 cm (83 in) oil-on-canvas painting and weighs 44 kg (97 lb). The painting shows a seated female who represents peace being crowned with a laurel wreath by a woman who is clad in armour who represents war. Under her feet lies a man in armor with a sword, his hands wrapped in chains.
David produced the painting to compete for the Prix de Rome of 1771. For the competition, he and the seven other participating artists were assigned the task of painting a new work in 10 weeks on a set subject, which that year was the Iliad. David's painting was awarded the second prize as the Prix de Rome was given to Joseph-Benoît Suvée. [1]
David Ligare (born 1945) is a California-based representational painter of landscape, figurative and still life works. [1] [2] [3] His paintings employ formal principles and ideas from Greco-Roman art and Classical history painting in the service of philosophical contemplations of contemporary existence.