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Trompe-L’Oeil Arms Rack by Jacobus Biltius

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Moira McLaughlin

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Arms Rack by Jacobus Biltius The Hague, 1655

“A trompe-l’oeil of an arms rack with a leading staff, a partizan, a matchlock musket, a longbow, a fowling piece with pistols, game bags, dead game and other instruments of the chase hanging on a wall.”   At Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, & Water Colours auction in London on July 6, 2010.  

Estimated between $294,600 – $441,900.

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    nancy

    that’s horrific. There you go, all in one image, the problem with humanity. Glorification of weaponry, carcasses of the dead as trophies, and then there is the implied collaboration of one of our favorite creatures. Domination rules, but of course. I blame testosterone, but I don’t really know why men kill.

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