Tag: Artists
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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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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, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anneke Jamieson’s The promotion, with Footnotes #236
A portrait portraying the conflict between being a mother and an Army service member has won a prestigious art prize, run by the Australian War Memorial. Retired major Anneke Jamieson won the 2022 Napier Waller Art Prize for her portrait titled The Promotion. In her artist’s statement, Mrs Jamieson said The Promotion was an expression of…
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