The Apotheosis of War is an 1871 oil painting by the Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin, part of his Turkestan Series. It depicts a pile of skulls outside the walls of a city in Central Asia, and Vereshchagin dedicated the completed work to all great conquerors, past, present and to come.
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Year Created LocationTretyakov Gallery, Moscow 1 Medium
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Russia, located there.
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1. The Apotheosis of War (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, first sentence
The Apotheosis of War is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin.
lead section, third sentence
Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pile of skulls outside the walls of a city in Central Asia.
lead section, second paragraph
The painting is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow.
Genre reference
The Apotheosis of War is an 1871 oil painting by the Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin, part of his Turkestan Series.
In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
The Apotheosis of War (Russian: Апофеоз войны) is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. Following his completion of the painting, Vereshchagin dedicated his work "to all great conquerors, past, present and to
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