Since they were posted I have been immensely enjoying the great quality of the pictures taken by the hussars portal team http://www.hussar.com.pl/12776/husaria-pod-chocimiem-1673r ( those of the Klushino and Chocim victories) drawing ideas float around.
This morning, after some exercise in the park while walking my son's dog ;) , I had decided to play a little 'joke' and I painted in a rather pensively looking nobleman standing in front of the battle of Chocim /Khotyn 1673 painting with future king Jan III Sobieski - then grand hetman - looking on ( wikipedia http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwa_pod_Chocimiem_%281673%29 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_%281673%29 ) .
Our Polish-Lithuanian glory belongs to the past - as in a Latin saying Sic transit gloria mundi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_transit_gloria_mundi and our nobleman may be reflecting on it.
Hope this little 'desecration' of this artwork will not offend any traditionalists surfing out there the world wide web :) .
ps
I want to welcome two newest followers of my blog: Julia and Michal-Kadrinazi, his blog is a marvel of sources, information and erudite analysis on the XVII century (17th ) warfare http://kadrinazi.blogspot.com/ (but it is in Polish only ).
You're to kind for me Dario :) blog is just wee bit of writing done in spare time, based on my favourite period, that's all. It will be only in Polish, as I'm to lazy to write in two languages...
ReplyDeleteRegards
Michal