oorlog: Callot & Bruegel

https://ehne.fr/en/article/wars-and-traces-war/representations-war/painting-war

In his Massacre of the Innocents, Brueghel the Elder transposed this biblical theme onto a Flemish village in order to condemn the cruelty of the Spanish occupation and the barbarous acts perpetrated by the marauding soldiers. Meanwhile, a series of etchings by Jacques Callot entitled The Miseries and Misfortunes of War (1633), was a means of the artist denouncing the ravages of the Thirty Years War in his native Lorraine. Other, later works would also denounce the burning, sacking and bombardment of towns and villages.