The title, The Most Terrible night, reminds us of the shock that the bombardment must have inflicted on the city's inhabitants. Lorentzen was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, so this scene shows the view from his window on the night between 4 and 5 September 1807.. The Most Terrible Night. View of Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen During the English Bombardement of Copenhagen at Night between 4 and 5 September 1807
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.jpg "最も恐ろしい夜、1807年9月4日から5日にかけてのイギリス軍によるコペンハーゲン砲撃時のコペンハーゲンのKongens Nytorvの夜景")
The Most Terrible Night. View of Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen During the English Bombardment of Copenhagen at Night between 4 and 5 September 1807. "The Most Terrible Night," painted by C.A. Lorentzen between 1807 and 1808, is a powerful and somber work that likely commemorates a dark chapter in Danish history: the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.