Tuesday 12 April 2016 at 17:11
Depicting what was probably the most decisive moment of the Battle of Gibraltar, this remarkable painting by Dutch artist Cornelius Claesz van Wieringen, is also an extraordinary attempt to capture the gruesome realities of an explosion.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-explosion-of-the-spanish-flagship-during-the-battle-of-gibraltar-ca-1621/