Snow Storm: Hannibal
and His Army Crossing the Alps (1812) by the British painter. Though
Turner is mostly considered a landscape painter he did here kind of
history painting. At least he mixes both genres. That Hannibal and
his army are not simply decoration indicates the date of the
painting. Turner saw parallels between Hannibal and Napoleon, and the
historic Punic War between Rome and Carthage and the contemporary
Napoleonic Wars between Britain and France. So history is important
as a looking glass on modern events.
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