This topic is not to glorify war but to see it through artists eyes and to remember history. I hope the mod won't mind.

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Probably the first ever artistic depiction of war.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Morella_%28combate-de-arquero.png

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Cave painting of a battle between archers, Cueva del Roure, Morella la Vella, Castellón, Valencia, Spain. Dated to the late Mesolithic, dubbed the "earliest surviving image of combat" (although no precise dating is possible).

Aboriginal rock paintings under rocks in Ubirr, Kakadu national park.
The rock faces at Ubirr have been continuously painted and repainted since 40,000 BCE. Most paintings there were created about 2000 years ago.

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Some say that there is some sort of armed conflict on the left side of the picture but I am not sure.

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The Pylos Combat Agate is a Minoan sealstone of the Mycenaean era, likely manufactured in Late Minoan Crete. It depicts two warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat, with a third warrior lying on the ground. It was discovered in the Griffin Warrior Tomb near the Palace of Nestor in Pylos and is dated to about 1450 BCE.

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This masterpiece in miniature is an engraved agate sealstone, measuring only 3.6cm in length. Carved with exceptional skill onto its hardstone surface is a combat scene with such fine details (some barely visible through the veining of the agate) that they can only be seen properly with photomicroscopy or a close-up camera lens.

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Gallipoli, ANZAC Cove, 1915, by Horace Moor-Jones

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 21^st, 2024 at 5:12pm:

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/ART03227/screen/4160351.JPG Gallipoli, ANZAC Cove, 1915, by Horace Moor-Jones

I wanted to come to Australian military art later as there is plenty of it and some is very good from both artistic an historical POV.

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S-Class Submarine. Up the Conning Tower 1944 by Stephen Bone.