Tag: Artists
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Bellows’ The Germans Arrive, with footnotes
A German soldier strangles a civilian while another woman is attacked near a burning cottage. Artists played a role even before 1917. Reports of German atrocities galvanized George Bellows, initially an opponent of the war, into action. Bellows, channeling Goya, painted and made prints of rape, forced labor and the murder of children by gleeful…
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02 Works, The Art of War, George Bellows’ Massacre at Dinant, with footnotes
The Dinant massacre refers to the mass execution of civilians, looting and sacking of Dinant, Neffe and Bouvignes-sur-Meuse in Belgium, perpetrated by German troops during the Battle of Dinant against the French in World War I. Convinced that the civilian population was hiding francs-tireurs, the German General Staff issued orders to execute the population and…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Kenneth Forbes’ Canadian Artillery in Action, with footnotes
A Canadian 6-inch howitzer supports British troops in the attack on Thiepval on 16 July 1916 during the Somme offensive. The artist captures the exhaustion of the gunners, who appear to have been firing for hours… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works, The art of War, Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien’s Over the Top, A Sniper in the Cemetery and CANADIAN OFFICER KILLED, Neuville-Vitasse, with Footnotes
Bastien depicts an attack by the 22nd Battalion at Neuville-Vitasse, a German-fortified village in occupied France, in late August 1918. Major Georges Vanier, later the Governor General of Canada, maintained that he was the officer holding the pistol leading the assault… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Le Brun’s The passage of the Granicus, with footnotes
The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great of Macedon and the Persian Achaemenid Empire… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maurice Orange’s The Defenders of Zaragoza, with footnotes
The second siege of Zaragoza was the French capture of the Spanish city of Zaragoza (also known as Saragossa) during the Peninsular War. It was particularly noted for its brutality. The city was heavily outnumbered against the French. However, the desperate resistance put up by the Army of Reserve and its civilian allies had been…
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02 Works The Art of War, Bertalan Székely’s Women of Eger, with footnotes
On 29 September, 1552, an army of 35–40,000 men from the Rumelian army (and an Anatolian contingent) and the troops of Ahmed Pasha from Buda gathered at Szolnok and went on to attack the castle of Eger. The defenders of the castle numbered all together 2000, including serfs with no understanding of warfare, and many…
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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 Painting, Middle East Artists, Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid’s At the Gate, with Footnotes #58
Sold for £5,062.50 in June 2020 Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid was born in 1938 in Cairo where he still lives and works. He has a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Art History from Helwan University, Cairo. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, founder and head of the…
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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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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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