Category: Art
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01 Work, The Art of War, Klaudii Vasilievich Lebedev’s The Fall of Novgorod, with footnotes
The Fall of Novgorod depicts the capture of the City of Novgorod by Ivan III in 1478. Ivan had the city bell—a symbol of self-governance by the citizens—taken down and transported to Moscow. In the painting Marfa Boretskaya, the mayor’s widow and leader of the resistance, stands in silent outrage as Ivan’s troops remove the…
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01 Work, The art of War, William of Clermont defends Ptolemais, with Footnotes
Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Canaanite coast in the region of Palestine, in the location of the present-day city of Acre. It was also called Ptolemais in Canaan. It was an Ancient bishopric, which became a double Catholic titular see. In the Middle Ages, it was known as Acre amongst some Western European…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Albert-Ferdinand Le Dru’s Battle Scene, with footnotes
Estimated for €4,000 EUR – €5,000 EUR in Sep 2022 In this military scene, a group of soldiers of the French army take cover behind a whitewashed wall. They point their rifles towards the battlefield, taking shelter in the courtyard of an abandoned house. Through the splintered timbers of the windows, several rifles are also…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Albert Ferdinand Le Dru’s Félicité & Théophile Fernig – Warrior sisters, with footnotes
Sold for €9,000 EUR in Jan 2013 “Gentlemen, though our sex is accused of weakness and timidity, although we are excused from the honor of the oath, as well as civic inscription, we nevertheless dare to offer our country our arms and our lives; therefore, we beg you gentlemen, my younger sister and I, not…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Captain James Hope’s The Aftermath at Bloody Lane, with footnotes
The center of Lee’s defensive line—an 800-yard-long sunken road later called Bloody Lane—as it appeared following the midday battle. By 1:00 p.m., some 5,000 killed and wounded troops of both sides lay along this farm road… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Vasily Vereshchagin’s Through the fire, with footnotes
Napoleon, with the help of soldiers, moves through the fire towards the Arbat; The name of a part of the city district located in the central administrative district of Moscow.Vasily Vereshchagin carefully studied the history of the French invasion of Russia in 1812, paying particular attention to the military-historical realities. Through source materials and studies devoted…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s The Second of May 1808, and and Joaquín Sorolla’s The death of Pedro Velarde y Santillán, with footnotes
Francisco Goya (1746–1828)The Second of May 1808 or The Charge of the Mamelukes, c. 1814Oil on canvasheight: 266 cm (104.7 in); idth: 345 cm (11.3 ft)Museo del Prado The city had been under the occupation of Napoleon’s army since 23 March of the same year. King Charles IV had been forced by the Spanish people…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Safia Latif’s David and Goliath, with footnotes
“That’s why the 12 year old Palestinian boy can get in front of an Isr*eli tank with a rock, because he knows there is a Power beyond that tank, a Power that can’t be seen that’s beyond and more powerful than that tank.” – Amir Abdul Malik Ali Safia Latif is an oil painter based in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Richard Jack’s First World War, The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917, with footnotes
The battle at Vimy Ridge in April 1917 is Canada’s most famous. Richard Jack’s depiction focuses on the technology that enabled the assault to succeed. Of Canada’s many First World War battles, the successful assault at Vimy Ridge in April 1917 is the most famous. Victory cost more than ten thousand casualties. “Battle Vimy Ridge,” Lieutenant…
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01 Work, The art of War, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING THE DEVILS OF THE UNDERWORLD, with Footnotes
Extremely complicated composition, with figures moving in opposite directions. In the color and the reproduction of the physical, the strong influence of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) can be seen, with whom he had worked together at the festive decoration in Ghent. All these stylistic aspects suggest the attribution. So too, this painting is…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Les dernières cartouches/ The Last Cartridges, with footnotes
September 1st 1870, and French soldiers, besieged inside a house in the Ardennes’ village of Bazeilles, are fighting a desperate battle against the Prussian invader… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Mahmoud Affifi’s Tarek Ebn Zeyad , with footnotes
Estimated for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in October 2023 Tariq ibn Ziyad was an Ummayad general of Berber origin who made history in the late seventh, early eighth century. Most biographical records position him as a former slave who slowly gained favours before eventually leading the Ummayad army himself. His prominent role in the Muslim conquest…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Theophilos Hatzimihail’s Alexander the Great killing Mithridates, with footnotes
Sold for £90,000 on 16 November 2016 Mighty, regal and handsome as an Olympian god, his golden armour flashing lightning, Alexander the Great, riding Bucephalus, his beloved black stallion and one of antiquity’s most famous horses, plunges his lance in the body of Mithridatis, a high ranking Persian and son-in-law of king Darius III, at the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky’s The abandonment of the village by the mountaineers, with footnotes
During the Russo-Circassian War, the Russian Empire employed a genocidal strategy of massacring Circassian civilians. Only a small percentage who accepted Russification and resettlement within the Russian Empire were completely spared. The remaining Circassian population who refused were variously dispersed or killed en masse. Circassian villages would be located and burnt, systematically starved, or their…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Irina Baldina’s Natasha Kachuevskaya – Red Army heroine of the Battle of Stalingrad, with footnotes
On November 19, 1942, Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive in the Stalingrad area, and the next day, November 20, 1942, during the counteroffensive of the 28th Army south of the village of Khulkhut, already in the rear of the advancing Soviet troops, a group of German soldiers leaving the encirclement stumbled across a dugout where…
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01 Work, The Art of War, John Trumbull’s The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, with footnotes
Here Trumbull memorializes the death of a hero of the American campaign against the British in Canada. The diagonal composition, contrasts of light and dark, use of blazing colors, and depiction of action close to the picture surface all heighten the drama. Major General Richard Montgomery had tried to enter Quebec during a blizzard, but…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Peter Janssen’s Hermann (Arminius) at the battle of the Teutoburg Forest , with footnotes
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varian Disaster by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place at modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. The alliance was…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Vasily Vereshchagin’s Memorial service for the dead, with footnotes
The siege of Plevna or Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, fought by the joint army of Russian Empire and Kingdom of Romania against the Ottoman Empire. After the Russian army crossed the Danube at Svishtov, it began advancing towards the centre of modern Bulgaria, with the aim of crossing…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Vassily Surikov’s The conquest of Siberia by Yermak, with footnotes
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov had been working on this colossal painting for four years and even undertook long trips to the places relevant for the topic of the picture. The painting depicts the final battle of Yermak’s brigade with the vast hordes of enemies under the command of khan Kuchum in 1582. Surikov sees this battle as…
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