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Jacques Callot

Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War

1633
Etching on paper
8.2 × 18.6 cm (3.2 × 7.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Inscribed: Here, in a sacrilegious and barbarous action, these maddened, avaricious demons pillage and burn everything, demolishing the altars, laugh at the respect due to the Immortals, and drag from the holy places the disconsolate virgins, whom they dare to carry off to be violated.

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