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

the personification of wealth and avarice

Despite the vivid representation of suffering

and its allegorical layers invite interpretations ranging from the destructive power of desire to the transcendence of earthly boundaries

Hunt depicts Isabella in an enclosed interior

with the cliffs shrouded in mist and bathed in the soft light of the setting sun

Pour l'Humanité, pour la Patrie | Jean-Joseph Weerts | 1895 Giuseppe Arcimboldo the personification of wealth andAbout 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