I was walking past the new acquisitions case in the library today and the cover of Colleen Murphy's new book A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation leapt out at me. Not only because the subject area is one I'm interested in, but also because of the cover is the Milanese painter Giulio Cesare Procaccini's La Paix Chassant Guerre, now in the Louvre.
It's a fairly usual depiction of peace from the late renaissance/ early baroque periods, but it made me think about how such images still retain their power after so many centuries and how I should begin to catalogue these works when I come across them, especially as there begin to be so many of them from the 1600s.
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