Andreas Hofer after his
victory of Bergisel (1900) by the Austrian artist Franz von Defregger
(1835-1921). Defregger depicts here members the Tirolean militias in
their uprising against the Napoleonic oppression. It's the people in
arms, very popular at the eve of World War I.
Did Defregger refer to members the Tirolean militias in their uprising against the long-ago Napoleonic oppression because it was safer? Why did he not simply call the painting "the people in arms today"?
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