Iron Age Size:40" x 26" (Horizontal) Wenceslaus Hollar

Wenceslaus Hollar

we encounter the devout hermit

Graftombe voor Matthias Hovius

adding an intimate touch to the otherwise grand landscape

their faces filled with wonder

Iron Age Size:40" x 26" (Horizontal) Wenceslaus HollarIJzeren eeuw, 1728 Hendrick Goltzius This painting vividly depicts life during the Iron Age. In the foreground, the god Mars is seen with his squire. Before them lie a burning torch, a cannon with balls, weapon gloves, a signaling trumpet, and a drum. The landscape behind Mars is fraught with violence and crime someone is being stabbed, fights are breaking out, and a man hangs from a gallows to the left. Land surveyors are busy dividing the land into