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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
The painting is an allegory of the Dutch victory against the Spaniards during the battle of Gibraltar, that took place on 25 April 1607 in the context of the Eighty Years' War. The painting shows in the foreground a Dutch and a Spanish struggling between them by a wooden bar, while an English and a Venetian observe them.
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 .
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]
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 ...
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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)
Jan Lievens's painting of Allegory of Peace. The sitting female allegory of Peace is being crowned by a woman in armor, while trampling the allegory of War under her feet. 1654 . Lievens collaborated and shared a studio with Rembrandt van Rijn from about 1626 to 1631.