"Burned village" Albert Edelfelt (1879) Kimmo Huosionmaa Above this text is a painting, what we all know. It’s Albert Edelfelt’s “Burned village”, and it is the vision of the burned house. There is a couple of people managed to escape from that place before the military men came and killed all. This vision could be from any war in the world, and it could be the portrait of attack to some village in German Eastern front. Those cavalrymen were painted without details, what helps to return this kind of happenings in the mind if some person were in that kind of situation. This painting could be the portrait of an attack against civilians. And the message of this painting, is somebody always sees, what really happened. This portrait might be used in some memory therapy, where the therapist tries to find out why some person sees nightmares all the time. So the question of this portrait is that it is painted in 1879, and this picture could be based on the real story. ...