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Dramatic view of a building on fire during the Second World War in CLondon. The figure of the men are silhouetted on the ground in the brightness of the scene, as they fight the blaze…

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Leonard Henry Rosoman, Death, Zaidan, biography, Arthistory, Paintings, Artists, History, footnotes, fineart,

02 Paintings, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman's House Collapsing on Two Firemen, with footnotes

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The Siege of Kandhar by the artist Payag shows the detonation of mines that Mughal forces have laid under the walls of a Deccani fort. In the foreground a bejewelled general gestures grandly towards the flames and billows of smoke…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Payag's Nasiri Khan Directing the Siege of Qandaha, with footnotes

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La bourrasque, which translates as 'The squall', formed part of a strikingly ethereal series of portraits based upon the theme of the four seasons…

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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer,Art,Colorful,fine art,La bourrasque,History,Feminine,Zaidan,painting,FOOTNOTES,Biography,Woman,Artists,PORTRAIT OF A LADY,

01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, LUCIEN LÉVY-DHURMER's La bourrasque, with Footnotes #230

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The Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) in 1948 was a defining moment in Palestinian history that affected the life, culture and identity of the Palestinian people in immeasurable ways, and concurrently, the evolution of Palestinian art…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi's Expulsion from the Homeland, with footnotes

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01 Work, The art of War, Nash, John's Oppy Wood, Evening, with Footnotes

John Northcote Nash (1893–1977)Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening, c. 1918Oil on canvasHeight 1828 mm, Width 2133 mmImperial War Museums 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…

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Target 2009 was created as a direct response to the tragically high death toll amongst Gaza’s children due to Israeli military assaults earlier in 2009…

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Laila Shawa, Target, Zaidan, biography, Arthistory, Paintings, Artists, History, footnotes, fineart, war,

01 Work, The Art of War, Laila Shawa's Target 2009, with footnotes

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Two sullen boys carry an angel on a stretcher. The angel's wing has been wounded, and there is a bandage over the eyes. This painting was voted Finland's best-loved work of art, speaks to the viewer in countless ways - there are as many interpretations as there are viewers…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Hugo Simberg's The Wounded Angel, with footnotes

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The daughter of MLB player Albert “Cod” Myers, Ernestine Myers (1900-91) was born in Terre Haute. She performed acrobatic toe dances, ballet and Creole folk styles in both Keith and Shubert vaudeville, and in the legit she danced with the Ziegfeld Follies and in the extravaganza Sinbad (1918) with Al Jolson…

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Art,Colorful,fine art,History,Ernestine Meyers,Feminine,Zaidan,painting,FOOTNOTES,Biography,Orval Hixon,Woman,Artists,PORTRAIT OF A LADY,

04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Orval Hixon's Ernestine Meyers, with Footnotes #231

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The Taube (Taube translates as 'Dove', taub as 'death') was a German reconnaisance plane but carried bombs that could be thrown from the cockpit. The casual violence of the scene marks the increasing vulnerability of the civilian population…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson's A Taube, with footnotes

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When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.124) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: "M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the best things he has ever done. They are allegories of peace and war, but allegories conceived in a new order of ideas, substituting living reality for imaginary abstractions…

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02 Works, The art of War, Louis Gallait's War and Peace, with Footnotes

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After years of occupation, the Battle of Manila began on February 3, 1945. The month-long campaign resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Fernando Cueto Amorsolo's Hope in the Ruins of Manila, with footnotes

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This painting was dedicated to the heroes of 1941. To those who thwarted the German blitzkrieg plan. To those who died a brave death for their Motherland, fighting to the last bullet…

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01 Work, The Art of War, Nikolai Kolupaev's Victory Banner, with footnotes

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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

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01 Work, The Art of War, Peter Janssen's Hermann (Arminius) at the battle of the Teutoburg Forest , with footnotes

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01 Work, The Art of War, Chikanobu Yôshû's Japanese Fleet Landing Weiheiwei, with footnotes

Chikanobu Yôshû (1838-1912)Japanese Fleet Landing Weiheiwei, c. 1895Series: Sino-Japanese WarJapanese Woodblock Printôban triptych, 71.8 x 35.5 cmPrivate collection The Battle of Weihaiwei took place between 20 January and 12 February 1895, during the First Sino-Japanese War in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, between the forces of Japan and Qing China. In early January 1895, the Japanese…

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"During their military exercises, which consist of riding their horses at full-speed and stopping them suddenly after firing a shot, it often happens that the horses carry away their riders and fight each other when they collide." ….

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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix's Collision of the Moorish Horsemen, with footnotes #98

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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank McCarthy's Charging Warrior, with footnotes

Frank McCarthyCharging WarriorOil on panel9 x 12Private collection Estimated for $5,000 USD – $7,000 USD in April 2024 Carrying a lance, a Northern Plains warrior charges across to battle a challenger. He carries into this fight his personal medicine, given him in a long-ago vision quest by some guardian spirit. Frank McCarthy (March 30, 1924 – November 17, 2002) was an American artist and…