Tag: war
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Before the attack, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville presented two paintings to the 1859 Salon, both portrayals of the Siege of Sebastopol: Assault of 15 June 1855, four o’clock in the morning, and Assaut du 18 Juillet. These paintings were acclaimed by the Salon and, along with his monumental painting Bataille de Magenta [The Battle of Magenta], marked a turning point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Le Cimetière de Saint-Privat, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville, like Edouard Detaille, was one of the main artists to paint episodes from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the theme recurs frequently in his prolific production. At the Salon of 1873, where he exhibited The Last Cartridges, an episode in the fighting around Sedan in September, he was a great success…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Afifa Aleiby’s The Flood (Gulf War), with footnotes
Sold for GBP 12,500 in Oct 2018 ‘I completed this work in 1991, during the Gulf War, and the liberation of Kuwait. I was personally against the occupation of Kuwait and also against the war on Iraq. The Iraqi people who suffered a lot had nothing to do with the aggressive politics of a dictatorial regime, and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eric L. Pape’s The Last Soldier, with footnotes
Estimate for $2,500 – $3,500 in Dec 2023 Born in San Francisco, California, Eric Pape began his art education at the San Francisco School of Design before studying at the École De Beaux Arts in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pape first exhibited at the Salon in 1890, and then spent two years traveling…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Flemish School’s The Capture of Tunis, 1535, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 325,000 in Dec 2020 The Conquest of Tunis (1535) was a battle of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars that was fought between a Habsburg/Christian alliance (backed by the Hafsid dynasty) and the Ottoman Empire (backed by two French galleys). The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, assembled an invasion force of 60,000 troops and 398 ships…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Circle of Hans Baldung’s An Allegory of Death, with footnotes
Estimate for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in December 2023 This thick panel undoubtedly corresponds to a votive work bearing the arms of the von Metzsch family, Germany (their coats of arms depicted in the lower right corner). The central scene, representing death and a young woman fighting for the survival of the man in the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, N.C. Wyeth’s The Bloody Angle, with footnotes
Wyeth intended The Bloody Angle to evoke the general horror of war and specifically. “Then the storm broke, “and the angle became the spot on earth where, it is estimated, in all the history of the earth the musketry fire was the heaviest. It became The Bloody Angle.” Wyeth compressed both blue and gray soldiers…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Dying Warrior, with footnotes
Fragment from the second cartoon for the mural “The Retreat at Marignano” for the weapon room in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. This artwork of Hodler is also known as: F.Hodler, Sterbender Krieger.The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai and took place on 13–14 September…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Excerpt of the German students in the War of Freedom of 1813, with footnotes
The painting, executed in the style of a fresco, is composed horizontally. In the lower zone, the motif of the departure is carried out in two individually designed groups; in the upper half, the column of students going into battle can be seen against the background of a Jena landscape… Please follow link for full…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean Alaux’s Bataille de Denain, with footnotes
The Battle of Denain was fought on 24 July 1712 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. It resulted in a French victory, under Marshal Villars, against Dutch and Austrian forces, under Prince Eugene of Savoy. It was the war’s last battle in Flanders and one of the most consequential, breaking the Grand Alliance’s…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean-François Millet’s The Wanderers, with footnotes
Estimate for 40,000 – 60,000 GBP in Dec 2023 Painted during the last years of the 1840s, The Wanderers, of a mother and child paused in their travels with no clear destination before them, is a reflection of the period of great social upheaval in France before and after the 1848 revolution. The present work…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Hans Thoma’s War, with footnotes
War has left behind a blazing inferno. The silhouette of the allegorical figure rises darkly against the flaming red fire the dragon is spewing from his helmet. The rigorous profile view gives the man a look of unwavering determination, so that the dramatic sense of movement makes the events seem inevitable. The Städel acquired the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maximilian Pirner’s The End of All Things, with footnotes
Maximilian Pirner’s “The End of All Things” is a haunting and thought-provoking work of art that expertly combines technical skill with emotional depth. It is a testament to the power of art to explore the human condition and to challenge our perceptions of the world around us. More on this painting Maximilian Pirner (13 February 1853…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Meynier’s Allegory of war, with footnotes
Sold for €20,625 EUR in June 2022 This door top comes from Madame Mère’s Palazzo Rinuccini in Rome. Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros und Jacques-Louis David. Already at a young…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Louis Masreliez’s An Allegory of War, with footnotes
Sold for USD 62,500 in Apr 2021 The present Allegory of War depicts a furious Minerva, Roman goddess of War, dismounting her horse-drawn chariot, shield in one hand, thunderbolt in the other, charging toward a distant battle. Above her flies the winged, bearded, bare-chested Boreas, ancient god of the cold North Wind, accompanied by winged zephyrs,…
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01 Work The Art of War, Armand-Charles Caraffe’s Metellus besieges a city, with footnotes
Tamburlaine is a poor shepherd who rises to power to live out his blood-soaked fantasy of conquering the world. His extravagant savagery shows what horror can result when unlimited political libido is let loose upon the world… Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maynard Dixon’s Shapes of Fear, with footnotes
The abstract idea of fear is concretized here, in the way the four shapes representing four humans stand huddled together, their faces missing but their feet visible under their long cloaks. The cloaks appear like shrouds hiding faces paralyzed by fear. Out of the four shapes only one is facing the viewer, with a mere…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863) French Young Woman Taken Away By A Tiger Or Indian Bitten By A Tiger, with footnotes
Parallel to these complex compositions, where the hunters on horseback lead the choreography, Delacroix worked on many scenes with two figures, in which a great cat is shown tearing its prey—human or animal—to pieces. Lion Devouring a Rabbit, Lion Devouring an Arab, and Young Woman Attacked by a Tiger (also known as Indian Woman Bitten by a…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s Allegory of Peace and War, with footnotes
Pompeo Batoni’s grand portraits and numerous religious and historical commissions established him as the leading Roman painter of his day. He painted Peace and War on his own initiative, without a commission, attracting critical praise for the work’s graceful invention. It combines elements of Rococo softness and eroticism with the newly fashionable Neoclassical style. War,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ Allegory of war, with footnotes
“Allegory of War” shows a woman sitting on the ground at the edge of a battle among the dead and seemingly despairing of war. “Rubens occasionally negotiated peace talks and in the Thirty Years’ War, like many other artists of the pre-modern epochs, commented triumphantly on ongoing negotiations in painting and exaggerated peace agreements achieved.…
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