⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

Frederick the Great at the Battle of Zorndorf, by Carl Röchling. The Battle of Zorndorf took place on 25 August 1758 during the Seven Years' War, between Russian troops commanded by Count William Fermor and a Prussian army commanded by King Frederick the Great. During the…

22 September 1939: German and Russian troops hold a victory parade together in Brest-Litovsk after the successful joint invasion of Poland by the Nazis on the west and the Soviets on the east. Troops marched under victory arches decorated with Nazi swastikas and the Soviet…

Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520). His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of the…

🇫🇷 "Napoleon with His Troops at the Battle of Borodino, 1812" by Robert Alexander Hillingford. This battle was fought on 7 September 1812 in the Napoleonic Wars during the French invasion of Russia. The fighting involved around 250,000 troops and left at least 70,000…

🇫🇷 French novelist and poet Victor Hugo, 1876. Among his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)

Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1791-1828) of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 songs and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a…