Pour l'Humanité, pour la Patrie | Jean-Joseph Weerts | 1895 Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the ephemeral beauty of

and the ephemeral beauty of the frontier wilderness

Clémentine-Hélène Dufau crafts a scene loaded with quiet intensity and occult symbolism

"The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt

his face twisted in horror and despair

the personification of wealth and avarice

Pour l'Humanité, pour la Patrie | Jean-Joseph Weerts | 1895 Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the ephemeral beauty ofAbout the artwork: Jean Joseph Weerts Pour lHumanit, pour la Patrie (1895) transforms patriotic sacrifice into an almost religious vision. Created for the chapel of the new Sorbonne, the monumental painting presents a fallen French cuirassier whose death is deliberately echoed by the figure of Christ on the cross, linking devotion to ones country with Christian martyrdom. Painted in the aftermath of Frances defeat in the Franco Prussian War and during