Tag: war
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01 Work, The art of War, Fausto Zonaro’s Battle of Domokos, with Footnotes
The Battle of Domokos took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece. This battle was a part of the Greco-Turkish War (1897). After Greece tried to annex the island Crete the Ottoman porte declared war on Greece. The commander of the Ottoman army at Elassona was Edhem Pasha. He was one of the…
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01 Work, The art of War, George Clausen’s Youth Mourning, with Footnotes
A naked young woman, personifying Youth, kneels in a grief-stricken attitude before a wooden cross marking a grave. In the distance are the flooded craters of a battlefield. Youth Mourning is a return to Clausen’s early style of painting. The painting is a response to the horrors of the First World War and, in particular,…
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01 Work, The art of War, Walter Bayes’ The Underworld: Taking cover in a Tube Station during a London air raid, with Footnotes
A scene of civilians, predominantly women and children, sheltering in Elephant and Castle tube station. Some civilians sit on the platform seating, whilst others sit or lie on the platform itself. On the wall behind are a few C R W Nevinson posters. More on this painting The son of a painter and etcher, Walter Bayes had already…
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01 Work, The art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Paths Of Glory, with Footnotes
In one of Nevinson’s most famous paintings, we see the bodies of two dead British soldiers behind the Western Front. The ‘Paths of Glory’ was famously censored by the official censor of paintings and drawings in France, Lieutenant – Colonel A N Lee. His concern presumably being the representation of the rotting and bloated British corpses…
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01 Work, The art of War, József Molnár’s The Destruction of Pompeii, with Footnotes
Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in southern Italy, the best-known for its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest. In autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock,…
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01 work, the art of war, William Skeoch Cumming’s Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 10,625 in Oct 2008 After taking part in Major-General Frederick Roberts’ famous march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880, the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent into action in order to relieve the besieged garrison. During the subsequent fight, Lieutenant Menzies, on hearing voices on the other side of a locked door, shot…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Girona’s great day (19 September 1809), with footnotes
At a quarter to four in the afternoon, the bell of the cathedral sounds the alarm and drums roll everywhere with the call to arms. In the streets and squares sounds the call ‘To arms, assault on the breaches!’ The attacked breaches reinforce themselves with utter bravery. Our general arrives accompanied by the lieutenant of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, from a series on the Sino-Japanese War, with footnotes
Amid the smoke of battle, Japanese troops encircle panicked Chinese soldiers in this panoramic view of the conquest of the Korean city of Pyongyang during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). This propagandistic image, aimed at a domestic Japanese audience and saturated with racist overtones, draws a contrast between the Japanese participants’ modern, Western-style uniforms and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alexander von Wagner’s Self- Sacrifice of Titusz Dugovics, with footnotes
Titusz Dugovics or Titus Dugović (died in 21 July 1456) was the alleged identity of an unknown Hungarian soldier who was stationed during the Siege of Belgrade by the Ottoman Empire’s forces in Belgrade. Belgrade was at this time under the command of John Hunyadi. From 4 to 22 July 1456, and was besieged by the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Nash, John’s Oppy Wood, Evening, with Footnotes
The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the firestep looking over the parapet into No Man’s Land. There is a wood of shattered trees littered with corrugated iron and…
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01 Work, The art of War, Karl Bryullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii, with Footnotes
The destruction of Pompeii, Italy, is one of the most well-preserved catastrophes in human history. But scientists still disagree on how exactly thousands of Roman people died during those two fateful days in 79 C.E. For decades, many experts thought they asphyxiated amid the massive clouds of ash belched from the volcanic eruption of Mount…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Bogdan Willewalde’s the battle of Fère-Champenoise, with footnotes
The Battle of Fère-Champenoise (25 March 1814) was fought between two Imperial French corps led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise and a larger Coalition force composed of cavalry from the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Württemberg, and Russian Empire. Caught by surprise by Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank Brangwyn’s Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows), with footnotes
Painted in 1915, Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows) conveys Brangwyn’s deep concern for Belgium in the midst of war. The cathedral is on fire, smoke rising from its roof. On the left are a group of refugees, and on the right a row of soldiers marching on. In the centre of the composition…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Ypres after the First Bombardment, with footnotes
Nevinson depicts a desolate scene of the smoking, burning carcass of the Belgian city of Ypres after it was first bombed in 1914. Nevinson would have witnessed the scarred remains of the city while enlisted with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit as a driver on the Western Front. The skeleton of the once magnificent city, with…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French, with footnotes
The painting illustrates the moment when the guerrilla Juan Manuel Malasaña Pérez (1759–1808) kills the French dragoon who has just murdered his daughter, the embroiderer Manuela Malasaña Oñoro (1793– 1808), who was supplying her father with rifle cartridges to fight the French troops from her house during the assault on Monteleón Park. The scene takes…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Diego Rivera’s The Uprising, 1931, with footnotes
You see the men wearing workers’ overalls and the women wearing modern day short dresses and short hair cuts and even earrings. It’s an urban industrial scene, and it’s a workers’ demonstration. In the very center of the composition is a woman actively asserting herself against the forces of oppression. She is pushing back the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jack Kevorkian’s The muse of genocide, with footnotes
“Go ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia; see if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh again; see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two of them…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jules Monge’s the last of the battalion, with footnotes
All the soldiers present are French line infantry. The fighter writing with his blood “for France” is a sergeant, the one in the corner of the door is a corporal, the officer seems to be a lieutenant and finally next to him is a corporal-bugler. Given the uniforms, this scene takes place at the start…
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01 Work, The art of War, Suhair Sibai’s Damascus Queen #3, with Footnotes
Originally listed for C$9,108 Suhair Sibai was born in Syria in 1956. Through her work, Suhair explores the concepts of identity and the Self, using the female form as her preferred medium. According to Suhair, who was educated as an artist in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, the level of multiculturalism and diversity to which…
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01 Work, The art of War, József Molnár’s Warrior Dezső Sacrifices his Life for King Charles Robert, with Footnotes
King Charles Robert of Anjou fleeing from the Battle of Posada (November 9-12, 1330). Romantic painting Charles’ army wear hussar clothes of the 17th century. The Basarab I of Wallachia’s army ambushed Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors rolled down rocks over the cliff edges…
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