Why it matters
Four riders, including War, Pestilence and Death, gallop furiously through the air above a city. Painted when Böcklin was 69, it recalls Dürer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1896.
- A second, unfinished version is in Zurich.
- Böcklin returned to the theme in Plague, in 1898.
Based on the Wikipedia article War (Böcklin painting) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
