Le Rêve, d'Édouard Detaille (1888).
Cool painting about your country's history
>french are sleeping instead of fighting
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Le cardinal de Richelieu au siège de La Rochelle
(Henri-Paul Motte, 1881)
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Alphonse de Neuville, Les Dernières cartouches (1873)
Man the Portuguese suffered some serious losses
1st parliament of Upper Canada, 1792
La Prise de Yorktown d'Auguste Couder, 1836.
wew, gotta love it when you forget the pic
Bitch please, we have a whole mural dedicated to our whole history, from prehispanic times to modern era
Bonaparte devant le Sphinx de Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867-1868.
The Founding of the German Empire in Versailles
Shame
about what
C.R.W. Nevinson, Returning to the Trenches, 1914.
Le Siège de Paris de Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815 - 1891)
Last one, I have to go to uni. Please keep the thread alive!
It's not probably the fanciest painting from here but it shows the harsh work and reality of the popular Slash and burn farming method.
The Coming of Sinhala, Ajanta Cave paintings, 200 BC
Nine Dragons(1244)
terrible
The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West
Died from 3 bullet wounds while decisively defeating the French under General Louis-Joseph le Marquis de Montcalm (also killed in the fray), outside Québec City during The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.
Part of the French & Indian Wars (7 Years War)
The painting caused an uproar at the time. The convention was to paint such things in Greek and Roman styles. West's decision to portray a contemporary scene with period accurate costumes and characters was extremely contreversial. Initially, King George III refused it after seeing it completed but later after it gained positive criticism he requested an autographed West original and it is still in the Royal Collection.
Better version
The whole painting is too long to post.
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Duke Charles insulting the corpse of Klaus Fleming, by Albert Edelfelt, 1878.
the caption means:
The heroes' fight in battles' roar,
Be the guard for you loved ones at home!
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fuck that sphinx looks so real
King Frederick talks to peasants about the potato harvest
Painting is called: The King is everywhere
So you are upset that the boxers lost?
Skeleton Fantasy Show(1211)
What the hell did they think they were guarding? No one was attacking Germany except a bit of East Prussia early on. The Germans were aggressors in it to shore up support for the monarchy, fuck over the SPD, and of course some good old fashioned lebensraum.
Also, where are the poison gas canisters?
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All of them were trash ruined the heritage of peking.
It was ruined when the Chinese took it from the Mongols and again when the Brits and French burned it in the 1800's
"In the Beginning was the Word"
SS-painter Hermann Otto Hoyer, 1937
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>Americans are sharting instead of being functional human beings
Woodcut of four "witches" getting executed
Didn't that guy enact 9 new potatoefarming related regulations in his time? I guess he loved his tatoes.
yeah, his farming-policies reduced the number of malnutrition in Prussia considerably
Great man indeed. Prussian history has been my newfound interest in history lately. Could you suggest me some good books about that period
also gave up wearing a crown because it's silly headwear