Category: Art
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01 work, the art of war, William Skeoch Cumming’s Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 10,625 in Oct 2008 After taking part in Major-General Frederick Roberts’ famous march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880, the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent into action in order to relieve the besieged garrison. During the subsequent fight, Lieutenant Menzies, on hearing voices on the other side of a locked door, shot…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Girona’s great day (19 September 1809), with footnotes
At a quarter to four in the afternoon, the bell of the cathedral sounds the alarm and drums roll everywhere with the call to arms. In the streets and squares sounds the call ‘To arms, assault on the breaches!’ The attacked breaches reinforce themselves with utter bravery. Our general arrives accompanied by the lieutenant of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, from a series on the Sino-Japanese War, with footnotes
Amid the smoke of battle, Japanese troops encircle panicked Chinese soldiers in this panoramic view of the conquest of the Korean city of Pyongyang during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). This propagandistic image, aimed at a domestic Japanese audience and saturated with racist overtones, draws a contrast between the Japanese participants’ modern, Western-style uniforms and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alexander von Wagner’s Self- Sacrifice of Titusz Dugovics, with footnotes
Titusz Dugovics or Titus Dugović (died in 21 July 1456) was the alleged identity of an unknown Hungarian soldier who was stationed during the Siege of Belgrade by the Ottoman Empire’s forces in Belgrade. Belgrade was at this time under the command of John Hunyadi. From 4 to 22 July 1456, and was besieged by the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Nash, John’s Oppy Wood, Evening, with Footnotes
The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the firestep looking over the parapet into No Man’s Land. There is a wood of shattered trees littered with corrugated iron and…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Untitled, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 100,000 in May 2013 Instantly recognisable for their photo-realistic execution and monochromatic palette, Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings examine the role of women in Iranian society and their relationship to the world around them. Tapping into the psychosocial dimensions of contemporary Iran, the artist explores manifestations of power as they appear or are negotiated through…
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01 Work, The art of War, Karl Bryullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii, with Footnotes
The destruction of Pompeii, Italy, is one of the most well-preserved catastrophes in human history. But scientists still disagree on how exactly thousands of Roman people died during those two fateful days in 79 C.E. For decades, many experts thought they asphyxiated amid the massive clouds of ash belched from the volcanic eruption of Mount…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Bogdan Willewalde’s the battle of Fère-Champenoise, with footnotes
The Battle of Fère-Champenoise (25 March 1814) was fought between two Imperial French corps led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise and a larger Coalition force composed of cavalry from the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Württemberg, and Russian Empire. Caught by surprise by Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Manuel Panselinos’ St. Mercury and St. Artemy, soldier saints, with Footnotes #214
Also called soldier saints, these are a group of saints who were generally soldiers in life, martyrs to Christ in death, and then latterly revealed as our heavenly protectors… Holy Great Martyr Artemius of Antioch was a prominent military leader during the reigns of the emperor Constantine the Great (May 21), and his son and successor…
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05 works, the art of war, pharaoh Thutmose III in Ghaza, with footnotes
Armies of chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers under the pharaoh Thutmose III thundered through Gaza and defeated a coalition of Canaanite chiefdoms at Megiddo… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank Brangwyn’s Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows), with footnotes
Painted in 1915, Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows) conveys Brangwyn’s deep concern for Belgium in the midst of war. The cathedral is on fire, smoke rising from its roof. On the left are a group of refugees, and on the right a row of soldiers marching on. In the centre of the composition…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Ypres after the First Bombardment, with footnotes
Nevinson depicts a desolate scene of the smoking, burning carcass of the Belgian city of Ypres after it was first bombed in 1914. Nevinson would have witnessed the scarred remains of the city while enlisted with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit as a driver on the Western Front. The skeleton of the once magnificent city, with…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French, with footnotes
The painting illustrates the moment when the guerrilla Juan Manuel Malasaña Pérez (1759–1808) kills the French dragoon who has just murdered his daughter, the embroiderer Manuela Malasaña Oñoro (1793– 1808), who was supplying her father with rifle cartridges to fight the French troops from her house during the assault on Monteleón Park. The scene takes…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Iythar Ghurab’s Fighter, with footnotes
For sale at C$1,320 in Jan 2024 “This painting is inspired by the unbelievable injustice, genocide, massacres and 75 year long crimes committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli occupiers, bombing civilians, women and children, bombing hospitals, shelters and schools and all exit routes, flattening their homes, ruining their fields and stealing their land,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Diego Rivera’s The Uprising, 1931, with footnotes
You see the men wearing workers’ overalls and the women wearing modern day short dresses and short hair cuts and even earrings. It’s an urban industrial scene, and it’s a workers’ demonstration. In the very center of the composition is a woman actively asserting herself against the forces of oppression. She is pushing back the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jack Kevorkian’s The muse of genocide, with footnotes
“Go ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia; see if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh again; see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two of them…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jules Monge’s the last of the battalion, with footnotes
All the soldiers present are French line infantry. The fighter writing with his blood “for France” is a sergeant, the one in the corner of the door is a corporal, the officer seems to be a lieutenant and finally next to him is a corporal-bugler. Given the uniforms, this scene takes place at the start…
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01 Work, The art of War, Suhair Sibai’s Damascus Queen #3, with Footnotes
Originally listed for C$9,108 Suhair Sibai was born in Syria in 1956. Through her work, Suhair explores the concepts of identity and the Self, using the female form as her preferred medium. According to Suhair, who was educated as an artist in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, the level of multiculturalism and diversity to which…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Seduction, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 518,500 in Oct 2010 Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings explore the complexities of life in today’s Iran through his unique combination of carefully controlled photo-realistic depictions of Iranian figures and gothic fantasy. The almost exclusive use of black and white seen in his earlier paintings, has since been tempered with restrained use of colour. His…
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01 Work, The art of War, Ayman Baalbaki’s Fedayeen, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 233,000 in May 2015 The present work from the Mulatham series is an iconic image of heroism for Ayman Baalbaki. These freedom fighters or ‘fedayeen’, as they are commonly known, occupy an important part of his artistic oeuvre. His war-stricken childhood during the Lebanese Civil War translates into the portrayal of these…
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