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Guernica
Artist / Origin: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Region: Europe
Date: 1937
Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE
Material: Oil on canvas
Medium: Painting
Dimensions: H: 137 ½ in. (349.3 cm.), W: 305 ¾ in. (776.6 cm.)
Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Credit: © Estate of Pablo Picasso/ARS, NY. Courtesy of Art Resource, NY/Photo by Erich Lessing
Battle of Til-Tuba (Battle of the River Ulai) (detail)
Artist / Origin: Unknown artist(s), Nineveh, Iraq
Region: West Asia
Date: Neo-Assyrian, ca. 660–650 BCE
Period: 3000 BCE – 500 BCE
Material: Limestone relief
Medium: Sculpture
Dimensions: H: approx. 6 ft. (1.82 m.)
Location: The British Museum, London, UK
Credit: Courtesy of Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY
War, of course, is a subject that arouses intense emotion. In the ancient and early modern world, when art tended to be controlled by an elite ruling class, most images of war were about the glorification of the victor. But as artists gained the ability to work on subjects of their own choosing and art was made more accessible to the masses, “anti-war” images that focused on the darker side of armed conflict became a genre in their own right.