An air raid on market day became the most famous anti-war painting.

On 26 April 1937, the German Condor Legion and Italian aircraft bombed the Basque town of Gernika for several hours on a market day. It was one of the first area bombings of civilians in Europe. Within weeks Pablo Picasso painted his 3.5 by 7.8 metre canvas "Guernica" for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair.

Useful: Art can keep an event in memory longer than any report.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

BuergerkriegKunstSpanien

Difficulty:

Related cards

Ancient statues were brightly painted, not white.Greek and Roman marble statues were originally painted: red lips, blue robes, gilded hair. The …
Four teenagers and a dog found 17,000-year-old art.In September 1940, four teenagers in the Dordogne discovered the Lascaux cave after their dog had …
Michelangelo did not paint the Sistine Chapel lying down.From 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo painted the roughly 500-square-metre ceiling of the Sistine Chapel …
Spain went from dictatorship to democracy in three years.Franco died on 20 November 1975 after 36 years in power. King Juan Carlos I and prime minister …
An object with no history is an object with no value.Provenance is the unbroken chain of ownership and location of an object. It decides authenticity …
The Mona Lisa became world-famous because it was stolen.On 21 August 1911 Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia hid in a broom closet and carried the painting …
European painters used ground-up mummies for centuries.The pigment mummy brown was made of pulverised Egyptian mummies, white pitch and myrrh. Sales are …
The Terracotta Army was brightly coloured until we dug it up.On 29 March 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit the figures – over 8,000 soldiers, 130 …

Keep reading

This card belongs to the topic History & Culture. Every card is short, cites a source and can be saved – due ones come back by themselves later.

About Doomlearn · Projects · Legal notice · Privacy · Terms