Since the beginning of history, conflict has occurred between people and groups of people. Eventually, people developed the organization to form armies and go to war against one another. Throughout the ages, as artists portrayed images of war, attitudes have changed. Guernica by Pablo Picasso and The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello are both about war, and are both regarding a specific incident in war, the images produced are very different. Due to the differing styles of these battles, the nature of the artistic movement of the time, as well as political and cultural influences of the time, Picasso's Guernica and Uccello's Battle of San Romano portray remarkably contrasting images of the experience of war, which vary from a chivalrous episode of combat to a horrifying terrible event of total chaotic destruction.
The actual battle of San Romano took place in the course of a war between Florence and the Visconti of Milan and Siena, their ally (Borsi, 308). It was a......
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