*FUROR TEUTONICUS*, by Serbian painter Paja Jovanovich...The monumental oil painting, 24 square meters, made in 1899, describes the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.. It went missing after being in the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, though this sketch has survived...
By those dimensions: 24 square meters = 6 meters by 4 meters. MASSIVE. For those who want to know, this equates to (roughly) 20 feet long and 13 feet tall. It won’t fit anywhere in my house, so if anybody is looking for the original painting I don’t have it. @The Meat man …Very powerful! @galba68 …thanks for posting!…Spark
I admit 4 x 6 meters is a challenge, if one likes to hang it in his house. We had the same kind of problem, with a smaller painting, just c. 3.5 x 3.5 meters. My wife discovered one day in our attic a strange forgotten parcel wrapped in brown paper. She unwrapped it and found it was an old Indian painted cloth approx. 3.5 by 3.5 meters, in very bad condition. It represented a scene of Hindu mythology : Krishna (blue-skinned), followed by a look-alike but rose-skinned, a group of shepherds and a herd of cows, meeting a group of girls carrying vases, probably the "Gopis". All the men were on the left half of the picture, all women on the right half, it was symmetrical. In the bottom, a river with plants, flowers, birds. On the top, blue mountains with animals (monkeys, a tiger, etc.) topped by buildings, and flying chariots in the sky. The whole was framed by a border. This painting was old and in bad condition. It had been restored at least twice in some places, but the painters who restored the damaged parts were not as talented as the original one. Unfortunately Krishna near the centre was much repainted, and did not look as delicately drawn as his follower. It was impossible to hang this picture on any of our walls, and it would have looked to much like some archaeological find because of holes, stains and repainted places. Thus we had it delicately folded behind (the whole piece is still intact of course) and we selected a 1.23 x 1.26 meters square, with very few restorations, to show, just with the cows, the shepherds and the character following Krishna. It looks like an old fresco... Hare Krishna ! We have absolutely no idea how this painting ended in our attic. It seems impossible it came from the previous owners, they were definitely not the kind of people interested in such things. We know that before 1918 the house was rented by a Russian diplomat (but which one?), it comes probably from him. This painting is called a "pichhwai" or "hanging", in India they can be found hanging in temples. I think it dates back from the early 20th or even 19th century...
