The Apotheosis of War (1871) by V. V. Vereschagin (1842-1904); Tsarist Russian artist. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognised abroad. The Apotheosis of War is a mid 19th century painting in oil on canvas, it depicts a pile of skulls outside the walls of a city in Central Asia.

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