portraits of war gods

The Very Legal, Very Cool Archive

cw: sexual violence, gore, and racism/racial slurs. In today's episode, Jackal (Mammonburg! @JackalJester) joins Josiah to discuss Caravaggio, Goya, and the Haitian Revolution. This disparate combination of topics began to synthesize into a visual history of modernity, war, colonialism, religion, and revolution from Napoleon to Aristide. The show notes for this episode are pretty helpful since a lot of our discussion focuses on visuals, and of course don't forget to check out Mammonburg, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts.

PUBLISHED 4/12/2021

World Destruction - Time Zone, John Lydon, Afrika Bambaataa
The Painter - I'm From Barcelona
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Dambala - Exuma
Money is King - Leyla McCalla
Mèsi Bondye - Leyla McCalla
You Don't Know What's Going On - Exuma

Links
General content warning: a number of the paintings linked below contain violent or disturbing content.
Caravaggio
Painting no. 1: Saint Jerome Writing, Caravaggio
Kim Jung Gi
Claire's Redbubble with flat art Goya
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Caravaggio
Judith taking revenge on rapist, Artemisia Gentileschi
Francisco Goya
Charles IV of Spain and His Family, Goya
The Garotted Man, Goya
The Peninsular War
The Second of May 1808, Goya
The Third of May 1808, Goya
The Haitian Revolution
First episode of Mike Duncan's series on Haiti
Mike Duncan, History of Haiti after the Revolution
Disasters of War, Goya series
This is Worse, Goya
A heroic feat with dead men, Goya
For a clasp knife, Goya
The same, Goya
Invasion of Haiti
The body of Charlemagne Péralte (cw: photo of a corpse)
Ogou(n)
Philomé Obin
The Crucifixion of Charlemagne Péralte for Liberty, Obin
Duvalier dynasty
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The People's Church (or Ti Legliz) movement. There isn't even a Wikipedia page for it.
Ernst Prophete
Recrucifixion of Charlemagne Péralte, Prophete
(I misspoke, there are two sources of this painting I've found, here is the other)
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Annunciation, Tanner
Nicodemus, Tanner
Haiti books referenced
The Faces of the Gods - Leslie Desmangles
The French Revolution in San Domingo - Lothrop Stoddard (very racist, probably don't read)
The Black Jacobins - C. L. R. James
Silencing the Past - Michel-Rolph Trouillot
The Rainy Season - Amy Wilentz
Our Lady of Class Struggle - Terry Rey