Vincenzo Monti known as Brescianino (1646- 1703), Battle, 1670-1680, oil on canvas, cm 80x120/ 31x47 inches.
The battle scene is a work by Brescianino, an important north Italian battle painter of the second half of the XVII century. The painting does not represent a real episode, but a fictitious battle, where the real protagonist are not the figures of the scene but the scene itself.
The painting is published on: G. Sestieri, I pittori di battaglie, De Luca, Roma, 1999, TAV V e p.223