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Theme and Artifact Francisco Goya The Third of May 1808, 1814 Era/Culture/Movement: Romanticism Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 8′ 10″ × 11′ 5″ Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid Commemorating a public uprising in Madrid against the French occupying army of Napoleon Bonaparte, this work lionizes the political martyrs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disasters_of_War

For my first artifact, Dr. Sally Hickson writes about The Four Horsemen, and he compares it to the 1960 The Magnificent Seven and the 2007 remake 3.10 to Yuma and talks about the villains in each movie. Also, how they have a comparable to this piece. She also gives a description of The Four Horsemen as “the sinister apocalyptic cowboys of world-ending destruction; Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death itself” (Hickson, 2015). Dürer gives his own spin on it too with adding a pitchfork or trident when there is no weapon described for him in the Biblical story. But in her words “he simply unleashes hell” (Hickson, 2015)....