Guernica

[ gwair-ni-kuh; Spanish ger-nee-kah ]

noun

1. Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
2. (italics) a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso.

Guernica

/ ˈɡɜːnɪkə; ɡɛrˈnika; ɡɜːˈniːkə /

noun

1. a town in N Spain: formerly the seat of a Basque parliament; destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War, an event depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings. Pop: 15 454 (2003 est) Basque nameGernika

Example Sentences

It was Dora Maar who found a studio large enough for Picasso to paint Guernica in.

From Time

We must also take into account his celebrated painting, completed just weeks before, Guernica.

From Time

Think about what would have happened to Picasso’s Guernica if it had been painted on a wall in New York City’s Times Square.

From Ozy

I found brilliant online tours of the Reina Sofía, with a new archive of documents about Guernica, as well as a new virtual exhibit at the Prado Museum.

From MIT Technology Review

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.

From The Daily Beast

Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”

From The Daily Beast

Anyway, Orner first published some of them as “Five Shards,” in the online magazine Guernica.

From The Daily Beast

For ourselves, we turned our faces toward the centre of Vizcayan glory, the famous Tree of Guernica.

From Project Gutenberg