Tag: footnotes
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Untitled, The distruction of Palestine’s Olive trees, with Footnotes #76
Sold for 25,200 GBP in October 2022 Palestinian farmers know their land by the square-millimeter. To them, there is no such thing as “wild plants”: each sprout on their land is an expression of Palestinian life, as indigenous flora. They harvest the crops, take care of their trees, and walk along their vines with the…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Edward Burra’s Wake and Soldiers at Rye, with footnotes
Rye became a centre for military activity. Soldiers are turned into nightmarish birdmen, recalling the Surrealist paintings of German artist Max Ernst. Burra was also interested in sixteenth-century English poetry. The bright colours and stylised dress of the soldiers might suggest courtly combat… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Domenick D’Andrea’s Battle of Long Island, with footnotes
Colonel Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, once commented that during the war “the state of Delaware furnished one regiment only; and certainly no regiment in the army surpassed it in soldiership.” At the Battle of Long Island, the actions of the Delaware Regiment kept the American defeat from becoming a disaster.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, THE ART OF WAR, Karl Friedrich Lessing’s The Return of the Crusader, with Footnotes #215
Teutonic knight returning from the crusade; based on Karl Immermann’s poem “The Entry of the Crusaders”. The late Arnold Toynbee once referred to the crusades as “Christianized Viking expeditions,” and given the wanton destruction and killing that accompanied these Frankish invasions of Palestine, his description seems appropriate. But the crusades provided Western Christianity with its…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Eric Kennington’s Bantam Hercules and Raider with a Cosh, with footnotes
At the beginning of the first world war, army recruits under 5 feet 2 inches tall were rejected. But ‘in the factory districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, the average stature was lower’… Please follow link for full post
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12 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Bouboulina, the Heroine naval captain during Greece’s War of Independence, with Footnotes #212
The defeat of the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi which fell on April 29, 1826 at the hands of the Turks. The news of the fall of the most powerful fortress of Greece mobilized the Philhellenes of Western Europe and revived sympathy for the Greeks… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rohan Hours’ Lamentation of the Virgin, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with Footnotes #212
The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John, who looks up in consternation at a saddened God. The Grandes Heures de Rohan (The Rohan Hours) is an illuminated manuscript book of hours, painted by the anonymous artist known as the Rohan Master, probably between 1418 and 1425, in the Gothic style. It contains the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Annibale Carracci’s Lamentation of Christ, Lamentation of one’s child, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with Footnotes #211
This is perhaps the most poignant image in the National Gallery’s collection of the pietà – the lamentation over the dead Christ following his crucifixion. It was a subject to which Annibale Carracci returned frequently, especially during the last decade of his life. Here, the limp and lifeless body of Christ lies in the lap…
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01 Icon, Mariotto di Nardo di Cione’s Stations of the Cross, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with footnotes #79
“Again, my son fell, and again my grief was overwhelming at the thought that he might die. I started to move toward him, but the soldiers prevented me.” The Via Dolorosa (Stations of the Cross) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem. It represents the path that Jesus took, forced by the soldiers,…
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09 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Palestine, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Elizabeth Butler’s The Remnants of an Army, with footnotes
Elizabeth Butler represents the defeat of the British in the First Afghan War (1839–1842), when they failed to overthrow the Afghan leader Dōst Moammad Khān. Doctor William Brydon, believed to be the sole survivor of the British forces, reaches the British garrison at Jalalabad, ‘faint and reeling on his jaded horse’ against a dying light’.…
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04 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Syria, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, Bernard Duvivier’s Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers, with Footnotes #236
The subject of this painting is a rarely-depicted moment in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. In Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony, Antony dies of a self-inflicted wound in Cleopatra’s “monument”, a fortified tomb in which the Egyptian queen had barricaded herself. Several of Caesar Augustus’s men, seeking to capture Cleopatra alive, enter the monument…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE ART OF WAR, Arabian Woman by Rawisyah Aditya, with Footnotes #237
The role of women in the military has varied across the world’s major countries throughout history with several views for and against women in combat. Over time countries have generally become more accepting of women fulfilling combat roles. More on Women in combat Rawisyah Aditya is an eminent commercial and travel photographer, Aditya Arya began professional photography in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Zonnebeke, with footnotes
Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. In the spring and summer of 1917 Orpen painted the battlefields of the Somme, sometimes at places that had been captured only a short time earlier. Orpen described in a letter the shocking experience of seeing numbers of corpses lying unburied among the flooded shell holes,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse/ The Machine Gun, with footnotes
Christopher Nevinson identified with the Italian futurist art movement. They celebrated and embraced the speed and efficient power of the modern age. Nevinson’s experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War, however, changed his view of the potential of a mechanised world. In this painting, soldiers fighting in France are reduced to a…
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08 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Lebanon, 1st World War, with footnotes
During WWI, the Middle East was a battleground for various colonial powers, including the Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, and Britain… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jacek Malczewski’s Death, with Footnotes
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper, a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe, causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person’s soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Imad Abu Shtayyah’s We shall return, with Footnotes #100
The painting shows the ruins of Gaza morphing into the torso of a Palestinian woman. This woman – Gaza – is rising to gaze into an expectant sky, body in motion as though she has just picked herself up off the ground. The strength, resilience, and determination communicated by this work are indicative of Abu…
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02 Works, The art of War, The Battle of Yarmouk between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate, with Footnotes
The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel… Please follow link for full post
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