Category: Art
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01 Work, The Art of War, François Joseph Heim’s Defeat of the Cimbri and the Teutons by Marius, with footnotes
View Post “The Defeat of the Teutons and the Cimbri by Gaius Marius, ” a historical masterpiece painted by Francois Joseph Heim. The artwork depicts a pivotal moment in ancient history when Roman general Gaius Marius triumphed over the Germanic tribes during their invasion. In this intense scene, we witness an epic clash between two…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Théodore Chassériau’s Battle of Arab Horsemen and Carrying Away Their Dead, with footnotes
Chassériau composed this scene after spending two months in Algeria in 1846. Like Eugène Delacroix, whose work he admired, Chassériau drew artistic inspiration from his experiences in North Africa. Unlike the older painter, who produced numerous fictional illustrations after his travels in Morocco, Chassériau promoted the documentary portrayal of the “Orient…” Please follow link for…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Leslie Cole’s People Sleep out among the Debris, with footnotes
Night scene showing civilians sleeping among the ruins of their houses. Rubble lines the streets. Among the rubble is what remains of their homes. Leslie Cole (1910–1976) was a painter and teacher, studied at Swindon School of Art with Harold Dearden, 1927–32; at Birmingham College of Art, 1932–3, with Harold Holden; then Royal College of Art, 1934–7,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Ernest Butler’s Blood and Iron, with footnotes
In the foreground Christ nurses a dying woman who holds a child. Above them is Kaiser Wilhelm seated on horseback with the Angel of Death at his shoulder. There are German troops behing him. The Kaiser has a haunted but defiant expression, immune to the chaos around him. Bodies litter the ground and a dying…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Samuel Waller’s Sweethearts and Wives, with footnotes
Exhibited at the R.A. with the following note: ‘On the first rumour of impending difficulties between the Scotch and English, the Moss-troopers would sweep swiftly over the country taking every head of cattle within reach – frequently plundering both sides with equal impartiality, and returning to the security of their castles to be welcomed home…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Evelyn Gibbs’ Women’s Voluntary Services Clothing Exchange, with footnotes
A scene inside a clothing exchange with women trying clothes on their children. Two WVS volunteers stand behind the counter. Established shortly before war was declared, the Women’s Voluntary Service for Civil Defence undertook wartime duties focused around the aftermath of air raids. Running clothing stores were an integral part of this work. Behind the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Leslie Cole’s Scene in a Regimental Aid Post, with footnotes
Interior of a cellar being used as a dressing station with wounded lying on stretchers attended by an orderly. A doctor examines another soldier upper background. A Regimental Aid Post was the first post in the medical chain during the two world wars. They were often set up in buildings and cellars close to the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Horace Vernet’s Peace and War, with footnotes
A former Napoleonic soldier, now a farmer, overturns with his plough the grave of one of his fellow soldiers and finds himself pondering past glories. The subject derives ultimately from Virgil’s ‘Georgics’, I, 493–497, but it refers specifically to the distressed state of many veterans of Napoleon’s Grande Armée during the Bourbon Restoration. Vernet depicts…
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03 Works, The Art of War, Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, with footnotes
The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the Battle of San Romano between Florentine and Sienese forces in 1432… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s The Battle of Taillebourg , with footnotes
The Battle of Taillebourg, a major medieval battle fought in July 1242, was the decisive engagement of the Saintonge War. It pitted a French Capetian army under the command of King Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, and his younger brother Alphonse of Poitiers, against forces led by King Henry III of England, his brother…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s Exercices militaires des marocains/ Moroccan Military Exercises, with footnotes
In 1832, Delacroix spent almost six months in North Africa, mainly in Morocco, as well as in Algeria and Andalusia. From this trip during which he accompanied a French diplomatic delegation Delacroix brought back numerous drawings and watercolors from his trip to Morocco which inspired this masterpiece created very shortly after his return. The fantasia…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Piero della Francesca’s Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes , with footnotes
In representing the Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes, Piero has chosen to represent the grim mechanics of the slaughter: there are no beautiful patterns, no lovely light, and the armour has little allure. The legs of horses and people fill the lower part of the composition, while above masses of steel and flesh collide. There…
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Grosz’s Eclipse of the Sun, 1926, with footnotes
Eclipse of the Sun is a masterpiece of political art. As signaled by the dollar sign darkening the sun, a symbol of life, the artwork critiques the greed and violence of the military, politicians, and industrialists. The tilted perspective, dissonant color, and ambiguous sense of space underscore the instability of period following a war. Grosz…
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07 Works, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz’s the War (Krieg) series, with footnotes
In 1919, Käthe Kollwitz began work on Krieg (War), her response to the tragedies endured during what she called those “unspeakably difficult years” of World War I and its aftermath. The portfolio’s seven woodcuts focus on the sorrows of those left behind… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz’s Woman with a dead child, with footnotes
The depicted child is the youngest son Peter Kollwitz (1896-1914) at the age of 7 years. Käthe Kollwitz (born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’ Ottoman horsemen crossing the ford, with footnotes
Estimated for 250000 – 350000 EUR in Dec 2023 Among the standards and crescent and ponytail banners, a squad of horsemen crosses a river ford. The Seraskier (leader of the troop) is helped by two arnauts (Albanian unit), in the water at waist height, while the Arab and Circassian horsemen (helmet topped with a spearhead)…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Guillaume-François Colson’s Napoleon In Alexandria , with footnotes
Bonaparte left Alexandria on 6 July. General Dugua marched on Rosetta, with orders to seize and hold the entrance to the port housing the French fleet, which had to follow the route to Cairo down the river’s left bank and rejoin the army at Rahmanié. On 8 July, Bonaparte arrived at Demenhour, where he found the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson’s The Cairo Revolt, with footnotes
The Cairo Revolt is an episode of the Egyptian campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte . It pits the French against the Egyptians. The revolt takes place on October 21, 1798. This city was taken by the French on 5 Thermidor year VI , and Bonaparte established the seat of the republican government there during the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Claggett Wilson’s Underground Dressing Station, with footnotes
Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), who had fought in France as a combat marine, produced a riveting portfolio of two dozen watercolors based on his wartime experiences. Wilson had trained in Paris at the progressive Académie Julien, exhibited at the Armory Show, and been…
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