Hans Crummett Virtual Museum of Victory

Title: The Triumph of the Victory Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Date: c Medium: Oil on Wood Size: 263 x cm Style: Baroque The Triumph of the Victory shows the moment of honor and triumph that a victorious hero can achieve, while placing it upon a throne of corpses and violence, this conveys the idea that the glory of victory comes with a cost.

Artist: Henry Alexander Ogden Date: Early 1900s Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artist; Claude Deruet Date; 1620s Medium; Oil on Canvas

Title: Austria. Vienna Heldenplatz. In Vienna’s Quadripartite First District. Artist: Erich Lessing Date: 1954 Medium: Photography Size: NA Style: Photo-Journalism This photo by Erich Lessing demonstrates how fleeting victories in war can be, by depicting the asymmetrical underlying irony of the botched Allied occupation of Austria.

Artist : Frederic Edwin Church Date : 1864 Medium : Oil on Canvas

Artist : Thomas Birch Date : 1814 Medium : Oil on Canvas

Napoleon’s eventual defeat turns the presumption of his inevitable victory, implied by the statue, into a glimpse at victory’s uncertainty. Title: Napoleon as Mars Peacemaker Artist: Antonia Canova Date: 1806 Medium: Marble Size: 325 x 125 cm Style: Neoclassicism

Artist: Sir William Beechey Date: ca Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artist: Antoine Le Nain, Louis Le Nain or Mathieu Le Nain Date: c Medium: Oil on Canvas

Frans Snyders gives his hunters’ triumph an unfortunate side effect, showing with the inevitable death of the boar’s innocent offspring that a noble victory can also be tragic. Title: Boar Hunt with Two Hunters Artist: Frans Snyders and Cornelis de Vos Date: c Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 214 x 311 cm Style: Baroque

Artist: Johann Jacobi Date: 1712 Medium: Bronze and Alabaster

Artist: John Trumbull Date: Medium: Oil on Canvas