Miserere et Guerre (print series)

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Miserere et Guerre is a powerful early 20th-century print series by Georges Rouault that combines religious and war-related imagery in stark, expressive black-and-white etchings reflecting human suffering and spiritual anguish.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork series
print series
artForm printmaking
artHistoricalContext post–World War I European art
associatedWith Catholic spirituality
French modernism
color black and white
conceptionPeriod 1914–1927
countryOfOrigin France
createdFor Ambroise Vollard portfolio project
creator Georges Rouault NERFINISHED
depicts human suffering
religious imagery
spiritual anguish
war-related imagery
genre expressionism
religious art
war art
hasInfluence 20th-century religious printmaking
modern sacred art
hasPart Guerre series NERFINISHED
Miserere series NERFINISHED
languageOfInscriptions French
mainSubject Christianity NERFINISHED
First World War NERFINISHED
Passion of Christ
material paper
movement Expressionism
notableFor combination of religious and war themes
depiction of human misery and redemption
stark expressive black-and-white imagery
numberOfPrints 58
printingProcess intaglio
publicationYear 1948
publisher Ambroise Vollard NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic distorted expressive figures
dramatic chiaroscuro
heavy black contours
technique aquatint
drypoint
etching
theme Christian mercy
compassion for the poor and oppressed
sin and redemption
the horrors of war
titleLanguage Latin and French
titleTranslation Have Mercy and War NERFINISHED

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Georges Rouault notableWork Miserere et Guerre (print series)