The Miseries and Disasters of War
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
With the 16th century The Miseries and Disasters of War, French 17th artist Jacques Callot anticipated Goya's Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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In 1633, Callot depicted the conflict in his homeland with his most notable series of prints "The Miseries and Disasters of War, also known as Miseries and Misfortunes of War. (French: Misères et Les Malheurs de la Guerre )
They consist of 18 prints and the earlier and incomplete "Les Petites Miseres" - referring to their sizes, large and small (though even the large set are only about 8 x 13 cm). These still alarming images show soldiers pillaging and burning their way through town, country and convent, before being variously arrested and executed by their superiors, lynched by peasants, or surviving to live as crippled beggars.
in 1633, the year the larger set was published, Lorraine had been invaded by the French in the Thirty Years War and Callot's vision still stands with Goya's Disasters of War , which was influenced by Callot, as among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.
