Last and Found: The story of one of the First World War's most famous paintings скачать в хорошем качестве

Last and Found: The story of one of the First World War's most famous paintings

Fortunino Matania's The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois is a timeless masterpiece. It depicts men from the 2nd battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers receiving general absolution from their chaplain Fr Francis Gleeson before they went into their frontline trenches to participate in the Battle of Aubers Ridge. The original appeared in The Sphere magazine of December 1916 and was thought destroyed in the London Blitz. However, the artist painted another identical version which was bought by the businessman Willie Slattery in 2024 and went on display in the Cork Public Museum in April and May 1915.