Who painted “The Apotheosis of War”?

“The Apotheosis of War” was painted by Vasily Vereshchagin in 1871. Where to see it: Tretyakov Gallery.

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Vasily Vereshchagin: war as it is: battlefields, skulls, soldiers and the East painted with documentary realism and bright light.

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public. Wikipedia

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“A Rich Kirghiz Huntsman with a Falcon”, 1871
“They Attack Unaware”, 1871
“Mortally wounded”, 1873
“Napoleon I in Russia”
“In the Turkish mortuary”, 1881
“Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English”, 1884
“Medrasah Shir-Dhor at Registan place in Samarkand”, 1870
“The Kremlin is on fire!”, 1887–1898