Panthéon de la Guerre

The "Panthéon de la Guerre" is a  panorama of the first World War and its heroes. The largest painting in the world, at 402 feet long and 45 feet high, and was painted by twenty-eight famous French artists, assisted by more than one hundred other artists under the direction of Pierre Carrier-Belleuse and Auguste-Francois Gorguet. It contains six thousand life-size portraits of World War I heroes and leaders, representing all the allied nations, with an accurate landscape of the battlefields of France and Belgium as they appeared in 1914-1918. This rare brochure detailing the panorama commemorating WWI leaders and heroes by French artists exhibited at the Century of Progress fair.