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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Military art Aug 21^st, 2024 at 3:22pm 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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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #1 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 3:40pm Probably the first ever artistic depiction of war. Quote: 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).
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 4:05pm 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. 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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Re: Military art
Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 4:33pm

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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.

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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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: Military art Reply #4 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 5:12pm Gallipoli, ANZAC Cove, 1915, by Horace Moor-Jones
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #5 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 5:23pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 21^st, 2024 at 5:12pm: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/ART03227/screen/416... 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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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #6 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 5:41pm
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #7 - Aug 21^st, 2024 at 8:19pm
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #8 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 11:36am
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Military art Reply #9 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 6:02pm S-Class Submarine. Up the Conning Tower 1944 by Stephen Bone.
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