History Painting: ‘Capture of Joan of Arc’ by Adolf-Alexander Dillens, circa 1850.
You’ve all heard of the story of France’s national heroine, nicknamed ‘The maid of Orleans’ and how she rode atContinue Reading
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History Painting: ‘The Battle of Austerlitz’ by Francois Gerard, 1810.
In the winter of 1805, Napoleon’s Grand Armée marched halfway across Europe to confront their enemy, the allied armies ofContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Crusader army attacks Constantinople’ by Jacopo Palma il Giovane, circa 1587.
If you are a curious visitor to Italy, and make your way to Venice, in the Great Hall of theContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Ivan the Terrible and His Son’ by Ilya Repin, 1885.
Although the Grand Prince of Moscow, Ivan IV had already effectively ruled Russia since 1533, he decided to raise theContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Napoleon in burning Moscow’ by Albrecht Adam, 1841.
The campaign of Russia in 1812 has often been said to be the beginning of the end for Napoleon. (TwoContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘8th August, 1918’ by Harold Septimus Power, 1930.
Following the launch and the initial success of the German Spring Offensive in March 1918, there was talk that theContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Battle of Kosovo’ by Adam Stefanović, 1870.
There were two significant battles in the Ottoman conquest of the Serbian state in the fourteenth century. The first ofContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Feast of Attila’ by Mór Than, 1870.
Most of what we know about Attila The Hun is shrouded in mystery. The Hun’s themselves left no written recordContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Allegory of the 1755 Earthquake’ by João Glama Ströberle.
A massive earthquake some believe to up to the magnitude of 9.0, struck the city of Lisbon during the morningContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The arrival of the Croats at the Adriatic Sea’ by Oton Ivekovic, 1905.
Oton Ivekovic (1869-1939) stands as one of the most popular turn-of-the-century Croatian painters alongside of great artists such as VlahoContinue Reading
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