The Art of War
For this section we’ve borrowed the translation into Spanish of the title of the book of the legendary Chinese strategist Sun Tzu whose life Asian sources place, with some vagueness, between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. However, and even if it would make a lot of sense to deal here with poliorcetica[1] and other military issues that were really important during the tumultuous Barcid period, these issues, and other similar ones, will be discussed in other sections of the blog.
Here, against my very usual behavior, we will be a more literal and instead of looking for beauty in the despicable warlike conflicts, we will choose to go through the history of the members of the Barcid family and of their native city through the lost look of sculptors , painters, writers and other artists who have immortalized their own version of the facts.
I hope that we will find a pleasant walk through the fascination that the Phoenician and Punic culture and, specially, the romantic [2] Hannibal Barca’s history caused on bohemian scholars, triggering an artistic interpretation of well-known historical episodes.
Although the real heroes of this section will be engravings, sculptures, paintings, films, books and other works of art, our intention is to go one step further the silent observation of these Humanity’s precious treasures. Therefore, we will take advantage of the moment and we will speak briefly about the geniuses who create them, their time and even we will venture to look for their inspiration in Classical Sources comparing the literary information with their artistic expression, with special interest in revealing and explaining their artistic licenses.
Prepare your chisel and arrange the canvas, because the remarkable Carthaginian general will pose for us with his fiercest posture.
Here, against my very usual behavior, we will be a more literal and instead of looking for beauty in the despicable warlike conflicts, we will choose to go through the history of the members of the Barcid family and of their native city through the lost look of sculptors , painters, writers and other artists who have immortalized their own version of the facts.
I hope that we will find a pleasant walk through the fascination that the Phoenician and Punic culture and, specially, the romantic [2] Hannibal Barca’s history caused on bohemian scholars, triggering an artistic interpretation of well-known historical episodes.
Although the real heroes of this section will be engravings, sculptures, paintings, films, books and other works of art, our intention is to go one step further the silent observation of these Humanity’s precious treasures. Therefore, we will take advantage of the moment and we will speak briefly about the geniuses who create them, their time and even we will venture to look for their inspiration in Classical Sources comparing the literary information with their artistic expression, with special interest in revealing and explaining their artistic licenses.
Prepare your chisel and arrange the canvas, because the remarkable Carthaginian general will pose for us with his fiercest posture.
[1] Greek term that designates the art of attacking and defending strongholds.
[2] We are taling on the artistic trend of the 18th century in which, as in some episodes of Hannibal’s life, they were dominated by passion, sometimes arriving, as happened with the Carthaginian general, to choose suicide as the end of existence.
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