Social History of Art

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17th France

Blanchard, Charity, detail, Toledo

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Blanchard, Charity, detail, Toledo
Made during the devastation of the Thirty Years War, Blanchard transformed this allegory of Caritas into an anti-war image by introducing a relief of battling soldiers. The cruelty of that war was imaged in Callot's prints shown next.
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