War

War has been depicted for as long as it has been waged. The images have shifted from the triumph of victory to the testimony of suffering – from the Alexander Mosaic and Uccello’s horsemen to Goya’s firing squads, Picasso’s Guernica and Reuterswärd’s knotted revolver.

• Images of victory in antiquity
• Knights, perspective and a cosmic battle
• The Thirty Years’ War: Callot, Rubens and Velázquez
• Goya: the Third of May and the Disasters of War
• From Romanticism to photography
• The First World War: gas, trenches and grief
• Guernica and the Second World War
• Samurai, Mongols and Chinese woodcuts
• The Nordic countries: royal battles and a knotted revolver