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Military art is art with a military subject matter, regardless of its style or medium. The battle scene is one of the oldest types of art in developed civilizations, as rulers have always been keen to
The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez (1634–35) shows a crowded scene as the two sides meet peacefully to surrender the town.
The Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in a manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles of c. 1410
The Roman Alexander Mosaic showing Alexander the Great (left) defeating Darius III of Persia; a floor mosaic excavated from Pompeii, c. 100BC
The entire 70-meter-long (230-foot) Bayeux Tapestry. Individual images of each scene are at Bayeux Tapestry tituli. (Swipe left or right.)
Canadian official war artists create an artistic rendering of war through the media of visual, digital installations, film, poetry, choreography, music, etc., by showing its impact as men and women ar
Alfred Bastien. Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele, 1917
Second Lieutenant Molly Lamb of the Canadian Women's Army Corps
Capt. Will Ogilvie, Official army war artist, with some of his paintings, 9 February 1944
John William Beatty Ablain St Nazaire