The Invasion of the Barbarians
Ulpiano Checa · 1887
Why it's great
Ulpiano Checa, who loved painting wild horses and chariots, shows hordes of mounted warriors charging across a snowy plain. The picture imagines the peoples who pushed into the Roman Empire at the end of antiquity.
🏛️ Part of history
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire (312–476) — Ulpiano Checa, who loved painting wild horses and chariots, shows hordes of mounted warriors charging across a snowy plain.
Where to see it
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Ulpiano Checa was a Spanish painter born in Colmenar de Oreja in 1860. He moved to Paris, where he became famous for dynamic pictures of chariots, horses and battles, and later lived in France. He died in an automobile accident in Dax, France, in 1916.
