Category: Art
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12 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Bouboulina, the Heroine naval captain during Greece’s War of Independence, with Footnotes #212
The defeat of the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi which fell on April 29, 1826 at the hands of the Turks. The news of the fall of the most powerful fortress of Greece mobilized the Philhellenes of Western Europe and revived sympathy for the Greeks… Please follow link for full post
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09 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Palestine, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Elizabeth Butler’s The Remnants of an Army, with footnotes
Elizabeth Butler represents the defeat of the British in the First Afghan War (1839–1842), when they failed to overthrow the Afghan leader Dōst Moammad Khān. Doctor William Brydon, believed to be the sole survivor of the British forces, reaches the British garrison at Jalalabad, ‘faint and reeling on his jaded horse’ against a dying light’.…
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04 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Syria, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, Bernard Duvivier’s Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers, with Footnotes #236
The subject of this painting is a rarely-depicted moment in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. In Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony, Antony dies of a self-inflicted wound in Cleopatra’s “monument”, a fortified tomb in which the Egyptian queen had barricaded herself. Several of Caesar Augustus’s men, seeking to capture Cleopatra alive, enter the monument…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Zonnebeke, with footnotes
Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. In the spring and summer of 1917 Orpen painted the battlefields of the Somme, sometimes at places that had been captured only a short time earlier. Orpen described in a letter the shocking experience of seeing numbers of corpses lying unburied among the flooded shell holes,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse/ The Machine Gun, with footnotes
Christopher Nevinson identified with the Italian futurist art movement. They celebrated and embraced the speed and efficient power of the modern age. Nevinson’s experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War, however, changed his view of the potential of a mechanised world. In this painting, soldiers fighting in France are reduced to a…
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08 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Lebanon, 1st World War, with footnotes
During WWI, the Middle East was a battleground for various colonial powers, including the Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, and Britain… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jacek Malczewski’s Death, with Footnotes
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper, a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe, causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person’s soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the…
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02 Works, The art of War, The Battle of Yarmouk between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate, with Footnotes
The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Francesco Hayez’s The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, with Footnotes
After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, the Jews of the Kingdom of Judea went into exile. In 538 BCE during the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Jews returned to Jerusalem and were able to build the Second Temple on the site of the original one…
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04 Works, The art of War, Charles de Steuben, Eugène Delacroix and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Bataille de Poitiers, with Footnotes
Muslim empire reaches its furthest extent. Battle of Tours prevents further advance northwards… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The art of War, Angus McBride’s Egyptian War Chariot in Action, with Footnotes
Chariots were very expensive, heavy and prone to breakdowns, yet in contrast with early cavalry, chariots offered a more stable platform for archers. Chariots were effective for archery because of the relatively long bows used… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s New Guernica, with Footnotes #96
The complex painting received mixed reviews when it was shown in the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the world’s fair in Paris… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Koran, Khawla bint Al-Azwar was a Muslim Arab warrior
Khawla bint Al-Azwar, who lived in 7th Century Arabia, was the daughter of a powerful chief of the Bani Assad tribe. As a young girl Khawla learned swordsmanship and literary from her brother Zirrar… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Oussama Diab’s Untitled, 2008, with Footnotes #93
Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in a neo-expressionist style resonating with the tense…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Michelangelo and Oussama Diab’s depiction of The creation, with Footnotes #95
This painting is based on the Creation of Adam, also known as The Creation of Man is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s From Under the Rubble, with Footnotes #94
Sold for USD 103,000 in Oct 2007 Active during a time of immense upheaval in the Arab world, Kayyali was one of its most prominent socio-political artists, his paintings externalising the pressing humanitarian and political issues that surrounded him. His powerful depictions of ordinary people are characterized by strong fluid lines that define the figures…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Mahmoud Sabri’s Jnazet (Funeral), with Footnotes
Sold for 346,000 GBP in October 2018 The painting Jnazet is the peak of a multifaceted representation of the artist’s political and social ideologies that were intensified following the Ba’athist Coup. The funeral ‘procession’ is harshly etched, with jagged and symmetrical tendencies; an uplifted arm both appears to beat a drum and gesture in defiance. The…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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