America

Emmanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 
Reframed: Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
Skeptics of the American Dream likely will consider Emanuel Leutze’s masterpiece depicting George Washington crossing the Delaware River to be a propagandistic romanticizing of America, a work…
Unknown, America, between 1575 - 1610. america shown in front of violence and canablism.
The Four Continents as Allegories Explained
The allegorical manifestation of "the four continents" is a visual staple of Western art from the colonial period and the eighteenth-century in particular. Used to uphold the idea of European…