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MPS MEN PORTRAITS SERIES n° 9 - WEAPONS & TEARS
November – Décember 2020 © Francis Rousseau English version by Ann Menuhin
This n ° 9, of the online magazine MPS - MEN PORTRAITS SERIES, fist issued in November December 2020 is about war, weapons... and tears, through 30 paintings from Japan to Peru, Europe and USA....
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Samurai from the Edo Period Colorized photograph, 1875
During the Heian era (794-1185) Japanese armour, already in existence for several centuries, evolved to consist of strips and small plates of metal or leather waterproofed under a coating of lacquer and laced to each other by ties of silk, precious metal or leather....
GIOVANNI-BATTISTA MORONI Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour (1540 -1560) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Inherited from the combat protections of ancient Greece and Rome, Italian armour from the Renaissance onwards became an item of pageantry, often used in lavish ceremonies....
SCHOOL OF CUZCO (16e - 18th century) Angels Arquebusiers Peru
The theme of angel and archangel arquebusiers ("los ángeles arcabuceros") or warrior angels is a peculiarity of South American colonial art,the School of Cuzco, in the vice-kingdom of Alto Peru. However, we find the same military angels in Calamarca or Carabuco in Bolivia and even in parts of Ecuador....
BERNARD PERLIN (1918-2014) American soldiers in Tokyo, 1945 Privatecollection.
This gathering of American soldiers, watched quizzically by Japanese soldiers, was immortalized by war painter Bernard Perlin. The episode takes place at the start of the occupation of Japan in September 1945....
ANTOINE-JEAN GROS (1771 - 1835) Bonaparte au Pont D’Arcole, 1796 Château de Versailles
The young and brave General Bonaparte training his troops to assault the Pont d'Arcole, wearing the dark blue uniform of the generals of the very young Republic. Three years later....
ANONYMOUS FRENCH (16th century) Mars, God of War gold, silver, lapis lazuli, opal, ruby, pearls and polished and enamelled chalcedony, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
The god Mars from Roman mythology (equivalent to the god Ares in Greek mythology) is the god of warriors but also the god of youth and violence, these two values going hand in hand in the antique world...
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN (1878-1931) The NCO Pilot, RFC War Museum, London
During World War I, British pilots were generally all officers, the rank of non-commissioned officer (NCO) being incompatible withpilot status. At the end of the war, he profession of pilot seemed definitively reserved for officers, excluding non-commissioned officers.
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