Ludus pro patria

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Ludus pro patria is a major 1883 mural painting by French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that idealizes rural youth and patriotic virtue in a classical, allegorical style.

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Ludus pro patria canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical painting
history painting
mural painting
artHistoricalContext late 19th-century French mural painting
artworkStyle classical
idealized
monumental
collection Musée d'Orsay
surface form: Musée d’Orsay collection
colorPalette earth colors
muted tones
countryOfOrigin France
creator Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
depicts French national identity (allegorical)
children playing
classical landscape
military exercises
old men
patriotic virtue
peasants
rural youth
soldiers
women
describedBySource 19th-century French art criticism
genre allegory
patriotic art
hasCreatorNationality French
hasPart background landscape with trees and hills
foreground group of playing children
middle-ground figures training for war
inception 1883
influencedBy French Third Republic ideals
classical antiquity
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Paris
location Musée d'Orsay
surface form: Musée d’Orsay
mainSubject civic virtue
education of youth
patriotism
rural life
materialUsed oil paint
movement French academic art
Symbolism
partOf public mural decoration program
significance major work in Puvis de Chavannes’s oeuvre
significantEvent exhibited in Paris in the 1880s
surface canvas
titleLanguage Latin
titleTranslation Game for the Fatherland
Game for the Fatherland
surface form: Play for the Fatherland

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes notableWork Ludus pro patria
Puvis de Chavannes notableWork Ludus pro patria