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Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War by Jacques Callot — VisualArtsDB

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

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

1633

Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: Plate: 8.2 × 18.6 cm (3 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 12 × 22.4 cm (4 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
Genre: etching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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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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