This painting depicts a military parade marching on a light orange street through a city adorned with countless colorful flags. The scene shows soldiers in olive uniforms walking in a long line towards the right, with a section at the front playing large golden instruments like tubas and horns. One of the soldiers at the front holds up a flag with long vertical stripes of green, red, and white, with a red, white, and gold crest in the center. On either side of the parade, the street is lined with onlookers painted in dots of white, tan, blue, black, and pink. The buildings in the background…
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The Bersaglieri

painter George Luks (American, 1866 - 1933)

1918

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 101.9 x 151.5 cm (40 1/8 x 59 5/8 in.) ; framed: 119.1 x 169.6 x 7 cm (46 7/8 x 66 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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