page_title: Brigandage
hierarchical_section_title: Brigandage
caption_attribution_description: English: In this scene, papal troops intercept brigands who are looting a coach and carrying off its passengers. During the 19th century, brigands, or "banditi," posed a real threat to travelers in rural areas of the Italian states, but they were also idealized as daring outlaws. Horace Vernet, the director of the Acad&#233;mie de France in Rome (1828-34) and professor at the &#201;cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1835-63), was regarded as a leader of the "juste-milieu," or the middle course between the opposing Romantic and Neoclassical factions in French painting. He chose dramatic, often contemporary, subjects but rendered them with the smooth brushwork and attention to detail associated with the Academic tradition.
context_page_description: Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. It is practiced by a brigand, a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery.
  The word brigand entered English as brigant via French from Italian as early as 1400. Under the laws of war, soldiers acting on their own recognizance without operating in chain of command, are brigands, liable to be tried under civilian laws as common criminals. However, on occasions brigands are not mere malefactors, but may be the last resort of people subject to invasion.
  Bad administration and suitable terrain encourage the development of brigands. Historical examples of brigands have existed in territories of France, Greece and the Balkans, India, mainland Italy, Mexico, Sicily and Spain. In parts of the United States of America there was a considerable amount of a certain kind of brigandage.
context_section_description: Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. It is practiced by a brigand, a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery.
  The word brigand entered English as brigant via French from Italian as early as 1400. Under the laws of war, soldiers acting on their own recognizance without operating in chain of command, are brigands, liable to be tried under civilian laws as common criminals. However, on occasions brigands are not mere malefactors, but may be the last resort of people subject to invasion.
  Bad administration and suitable terrain encourage the development of brigands. Historical examples of brigands (often called so by their enemies) have existed in territories of France, Greece and the Balkans, India, mainland Italy, Mexico, Sicily and Spain. In parts of the United States of America there was a considerable amount of a certain kind of brigandage.
caption: Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops, painted by Horace Vernet.
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