01 Work, The Art of War, Sir Peter Paul Rubens' Allegory of war, with footnotes

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Allegory of war, c. 1628

Oil on oak panel

36 × 50 cm

LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections

"Allegory of War" shows a woman sitting on the ground at the edge of a battle among the dead and seemingly despairing of war.

 "Rubens occasionally negotiated peace talks and in the Thirty Years' War, like many other artists of the pre-modern epochs, commented triumphantly on ongoing negotiations in painting and exaggerated peace agreements achieved. Practical political conditions and the reality of the war, however, could dampen optimism: in the 1630s, Rubens demonstrated in his works the devastating effects of the war and the pessimism of those years." Dr. Eva-Bettina Krems from the University of Münster

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. More Sir Peter Paul Rubens

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