# The Battlefield at Marathon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROTTMANN, Carl]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm ## Commentary The Battlefield at Marathon c. 1849 Oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm Nationalgalerie, Berlin This Romantic canvas of the battlefield at Marathon is one of a series of oil sketches Rottmann prepared as a Munich court painter for a projected fresco cycle of thirty-eight "Greek Landscapes" intended to supplement those of Italy. Marathon was a site with a powerful political agenda. It was the battleground that represented the triumph of the West over the East, of the Greeks over the Persians. ## Related artworks - [Cefalu]() - [Corinth with Akrocorinth]() - [Marathon]() - [Olympia]() - [View of the Eibsee]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()