[tanknetter]

Philippoteaux's Battle of Gettysburg -- with its exploding caissons, agonized horses and chaotic disarray of charging soldiers -- is an occasionally dramatic but hardly great painting. In 1883, impressionism was in full flower, and Philippoteaux's compatriots -- Monet, Cézanne, Degas -- were revolutionizing painting.

I've never seen the Cyclorama, when I was up in Gettysburg in mid-August that portion of the new visitors center (which is phenominal) hadn't opened yet, so I'll reserve my opinion until I have a chance to put eyeballs on it.

However, the above is all I need to dismiss out-of-hand the author as just another elitest, Europhile a**.

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, a Degas version of the Battle of Gettysburg would be ... interesting. Honestly, what does this dinglebob think a battle is like? Water lilies?