Costumbre; militar; campo de batalla; guerra; tambor; tamborilero; bandera; Teniers; siglo XVII; Royal Collection - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:36:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbre; militar; campo de batalla; guerra; tambor; tamborilero; bandera; Teniers; siglo XVII; Royal Collection - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The drummer https://historylab.es/the-drummer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-drummer Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:48 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-tamborilero/ A drummer tunes his instrument in the camp under the watchful eye of a young boy

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]]> Military themes were popular on both sides of the Eighty Years’ War (1568-1648). The most common image of the soldier’s life was the guardroom scene, a Gallic version of the tavern scene, where soldiers smoke, drink and play cards. However, this painting may have been executed for Leopold Wilhelm, commander-in-chief of the Spanish army in Flanders. It is strange, however, to depict the camp rather than the guardroom, but it attempts to convey the same aimless boredom of military life. Almost every military scene provides an excuse for the artist to depict a still life with as many different weapons as possible. Flemish artists such as Brueghel specialised in depicting allegorical figures surrounded by various attributes. In this case, the drummer could be an allegory of war accompanied by a variety of armour.

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