Upon the side of the great entrance-hall of the Royal Museum
in Berlin is painted a colossal picture of Kaulbach’s. It
represents the last battle between the Romans and the Huns,
which decided the fate of European civilization. The spirits of
the slain, fierce and restless as before, rise from their bodies
and continue the battle in the air. In the shadowy combat the
forces are led by Attila, “the scourge of God,” borne aloft upon
a shield, and by Theodoric, the Roman chief, with sword in hand
and the cross behind.
The vivid portraiture is a symbol of the battle waging, not so
much between brute forces as between the spirit of two opposing
civilizations for the mastery of the world.
(531)
=Conflict to Fellowship=--See ETERNAL, THE, AT HAND.
=Conflicts of Nature=--See STRONG AND WEAK.