Friday, February 1, 2013

A Great Victory


The Victory at Narva (1905) by the Swedish painter Gustav Cederström (1845-1933). Once again Cederström glorifies here the great time of the Swedish warrior king Charles XII.
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  1. HelsFebruary 4, 2013 at 3:38 PM

    Charles was undoubtedly a talented military leader, before and after 1700. But it must have been a bitter time with enormous loss of life. So it is interesting that the artist was still celebrating Swedish militarism nearly 200 years later.

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  2. XenophonFebruary 6, 2013 at 10:47 AM

    But that's what history painting always did. Glorify the heroic deeds of our forefathers, couldn't be old enough.

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