Category: Art
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01 Work, The Art of War, Claggett Wilson’s Symphony of Terror, with footnotes
The more muted palette here does not detract from the power of the explosion. The sickly yellow glow at the centre, at first, disguise the masked faces rising up on the horizon; a choir invisible, bringers of death. More on this painting Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Évariste Vital Luminais’ Fight between Romans and Gauls, with footnotes
The Roman invasion of Gaul was one of the most significant wars in the ancient world. It saw Rome’s empire vastly expand, propelled Julius Caesar to political dominance, and started the process that ended the Roman Republic. It was a hard-fought war between two very different cultures. The most powerful motive behind the invasion was not…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña’s The end of a beautiful day, with footnotes
Estimated for €3,000 EUR(4,393 CAD) in Dec 2023 “The night has come; the moon rises full and bright on the horizon; its light penetrates the middle of the woods and illuminates with its reflections an entire scene. A young woman, her body only half covered with draperies, veils her face with both hands and cries when…
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03 Works, The Art of War, Edward Bird’s The Day after the Battle of Chevy Chase, with footnotes
This image shows in detail the day after a battle. Men and horses lay dead on the field. The artist, Edward Bird, has captured the pallor of death in the skin of the corpses and the horses. The woman in the centre of the painting is overcome with grief and horror… Please follow link for…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Evariste Vital Luminais’s The Bounty of War, with footnotes
Sold for USD 11,250 in Apr 2021 Évariste Vital Luminais was a French painter. He is best known for works depicting early French history and is sometimes called “the painter of the Gauls”. Luminais was born in Nantes into a parliamentary and legal family. His great-grandfather Michel Luminais was an official in the Vendée; his grandfather…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Evariste Vital Luminais’s Captives, with footnotes
In a dramatic scenery, where the sky is darkened by the smoke of a burning and pillaged temple, two Gaul horsemen grab their bounty: young Greek or Roman women, who will become their slaves. Evariste Luminais shows here the full extent of his talent in the historical genre. Passionate about archeology, he is also obsessed…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Before the attack, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville presented two paintings to the 1859 Salon, both portrayals of the Siege of Sebastopol: Assault of 15 June 1855, four o’clock in the morning, and Assaut du 18 Juillet. These paintings were acclaimed by the Salon and, along with his monumental painting Bataille de Magenta [The Battle of Magenta], marked a turning point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Le Cimetière de Saint-Privat, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville, like Edouard Detaille, was one of the main artists to paint episodes from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the theme recurs frequently in his prolific production. At the Salon of 1873, where he exhibited The Last Cartridges, an episode in the fighting around Sedan in September, he was a great success…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse Marie de Neuville’s Defense of Porte de Longboyau, at the Château de Buzenval, with footnotes
The Third Republic was a golden age for military painting. Painters responded to the trauma of the 1871 defeat with images, which were sometimes unforgettable, depicting the heroic and glorious actions of ill-fortuned combats… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Afifa Aleiby’s The Flood (Gulf War), with footnotes
Sold for GBP 12,500 in Oct 2018 ‘I completed this work in 1991, during the Gulf War, and the liberation of Kuwait. I was personally against the occupation of Kuwait and also against the war on Iraq. The Iraqi people who suffered a lot had nothing to do with the aggressive politics of a dictatorial regime, and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eric L. Pape’s The Last Soldier, with footnotes
Estimate for $2,500 – $3,500 in Dec 2023 Born in San Francisco, California, Eric Pape began his art education at the San Francisco School of Design before studying at the École De Beaux Arts in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pape first exhibited at the Salon in 1890, and then spent two years traveling…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Flemish School’s The Capture of Tunis, 1535, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 325,000 in Dec 2020 The Conquest of Tunis (1535) was a battle of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars that was fought between a Habsburg/Christian alliance (backed by the Hafsid dynasty) and the Ottoman Empire (backed by two French galleys). The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, assembled an invasion force of 60,000 troops and 398 ships…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Circle of Hans Baldung’s An Allegory of Death, with footnotes
Estimate for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in December 2023 This thick panel undoubtedly corresponds to a votive work bearing the arms of the von Metzsch family, Germany (their coats of arms depicted in the lower right corner). The central scene, representing death and a young woman fighting for the survival of the man in the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, N.C. Wyeth’s The Bloody Angle, with footnotes
Wyeth intended The Bloody Angle to evoke the general horror of war and specifically. “Then the storm broke, “and the angle became the spot on earth where, it is estimated, in all the history of the earth the musketry fire was the heaviest. It became The Bloody Angle.” Wyeth compressed both blue and gray soldiers…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Dying Warrior, with footnotes
Fragment from the second cartoon for the mural “The Retreat at Marignano” for the weapon room in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. This artwork of Hodler is also known as: F.Hodler, Sterbender Krieger.The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai and took place on 13–14 September…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Excerpt of the German students in the War of Freedom of 1813, with footnotes
The painting, executed in the style of a fresco, is composed horizontally. In the lower zone, the motif of the departure is carried out in two individually designed groups; in the upper half, the column of students going into battle can be seen against the background of a Jena landscape… Please follow link for full…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean Alaux’s Bataille de Denain, with footnotes
The Battle of Denain was fought on 24 July 1712 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. It resulted in a French victory, under Marshal Villars, against Dutch and Austrian forces, under Prince Eugene of Savoy. It was the war’s last battle in Flanders and one of the most consequential, breaking the Grand Alliance’s…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean-François Millet’s The Wanderers, with footnotes
Estimate for 40,000 – 60,000 GBP in Dec 2023 Painted during the last years of the 1840s, The Wanderers, of a mother and child paused in their travels with no clear destination before them, is a reflection of the period of great social upheaval in France before and after the 1848 revolution. The present work…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Bernardo Strozzi’s Allegorical Figure, Minerva, with footnotes
During the 1630s, Strozzi painted a number of female figures representing various intellectual and artistic pursuits, reflecting the appeal of such allegories among learned patrons in northern Italy. Recent scholarship has convincingly identified the subject of this painting as Minerva. The Roman goddess of war has put aside her armor for more contemplative pursuits; her…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Hans Thoma’s War, with footnotes
War has left behind a blazing inferno. The silhouette of the allegorical figure rises darkly against the flaming red fire the dragon is spewing from his helmet. The rigorous profile view gives the man a look of unwavering determination, so that the dramatic sense of movement makes the events seem inevitable. The Städel acquired the…
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