Jacques Callot, from Miseries of War (1633–35) In the 17th and 18th centuries few official artists dared object to brute military force as the primary means of settling political disputes. Which is why Jacques Callot’s critique of the Thirty Years War, a series of engravings titled Miseries of War (1633-35), was so bold in its depiction of the unmitigated cruelty of warring armies as they tormented an innocent populace during the French invasion of Lorraine.
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