Battle Scene

Many Dutch, Flemish, French, and Italian artists of the seventeenth century painted pictures of battles on land, often with cavalry. Lingelbach’s subject, a generic battle of Turks and Christians is found in the works by Aniello Falcone, and his Italian followers, including Salvator Rosa. Falcone’s genre pieces influenced Pieter van Laer and Michelangelo Cerquozzi, two of Lingelbach’s predecessors in Rome. Jacques Courtois, who was friendly with Van Laer and Cerquozzi, painted battle scenes for noble patrons in Rome during the 1640s, when Lingelbach was there.