Jumat, 08 September 2017

MHQ Artists Review: Victory at What Cost?

Daniel Maclise’s murals of Waterloo and Trafalgar dramatically illustrate the sacrifices of war. For nearly 150 years, British politicians have filed past two massive murals lining the walls of the Royal Gallery in the Houses of Parliament. Painted by Daniel Maclise, a brilliant Irish portraitist working in London in the mid-19th century, they were commissioned …

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