Hans Crummett Virtual Museum of Victory

Title: The Triumph of the Victory Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Date: c. 1614 Medium: Oil on Wood Size: 263 x 160.5 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 ideathat 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. 1954. 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. 1794. Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artist: Antoine Le Nain, Louis Le Nain or Mathieu Le Nain

Date: c. 1620-1648 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. 1620 Medium: Oil on Canvas 

Size: 214 x 311 cm Style: Baroque

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

Artist: John Trumbull Date: 1786-1828 Medium: Oil on Canvas