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Description: | This painting shows a view of a battlefield at night, with the cavalry moving from right to left in the foreground. The troops are approaching Kallo, a small village near Antwerp, where the Dutch army was defeated by the Spanish Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria. Ships sail on the river Scheldt on the left, clouds of smoke, fire and the battle lines can be seen in the fields beyond. Pieter Snayers was Ferdinand's court painter and he recorded the most significant events of the Thirty Years War (1618-48), during which this battle took place. | Subjects: | military and war (Battle of Kalloo) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Snayers, Peeter (Flemish painter, 1592-1667) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9039... | Go to resource |
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