Talk | 04.05.2023 | 18.00 – 19.30
Examining an Apocalyptic Catastrophe – Les Grandes misères de la guerre (1633) by Jacques Callot
Lecture by Stefan Spitzer
The Thirty Years’ War constitutes the single most significant European catastrophe of the early modern period. The Lorraine artist Jacques Callot (1592–1635) impressively documented the horrors of this period in his eighteen-part series Les Grandes misères de la guerre (1633). But what purpose did these depictions serve? Do these scenes represent the first anti-war statement in European art, or did they serve primarily as royal propaganda? In his lecture, Stefan Spitzer takes a detailed look at individual scenes and uses the surviving account of the mercenary Peter Hagendorf to examine the extent to which the prints actually and unsparingly depict the reality of war.
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