# Declaration of War before Constantine

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## Artwork

- Artist: [AACHEN, Hans von](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/aachen-hans-von-r49032850f1b20c>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Parchment mounted on canvas, 34 x 42 cm

## Commentary

From a series of what must originally have been twelve compositions of Allegories on the Wars against the Turks \(1593-1606\), painted on parchment and assembled in book form, seven oil sketches have been preserved \(Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum; Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts\), one composition is known from an engraving and four others from drawn copies of which there are eleven in all, likewise bound together as a book \(Dresden, Kupferstichkabinet\). The present painting is one of the five preserved in Vienna.

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)