Paintings





that Changed the World




(by Klaus Reichold & Bernhard Graf)



From Lascaux to Warhol





     

 
 

 



"Miseries of War"

 

Jacques
Callot


"La Vie des Soldats"

The Small Miseries of War (1632-1633)

 

Fronticepiece

 

Camp scene

 

Attack on the highway

 

Devastation of a monastery

 

Pillaging and burning a village

 

Revenge of the peasants

 

The Hospital

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Jacques
Callot


"La Vie des Soldats"

The Large Miseries of War (1632-1633)

(The Miseries of War - after 18 prints by Jacques Callot engraved by Leon Schenk 90 x 185 mm)
  
Part I

 


Title page
 

 


The Recruitment of Troops
 

 


The Battle
 

 


Scene of pillage
 

 


Plundering a large farmhouse
 

 

 
Destruction of a convent
 

 


Plundering and burning a village
 

 


Attack on a coach