Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War

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Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War

Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)LinkedCulture matchlcp-950e643cf577

Date
1633
Medium
Etching on paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
23095

Inscribed: Here, in a sacrilegious and barbarous action, these maddened, avaricious demons pillage and burn everything, demolishing the altars, laugh at the respect due to the Immortals, and drag from the holy places the disconsolate virgins, whom they dare to carry off to be violated.

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