Salvete Omnes,
summer is in its dog days -
I corralled some woodcuts from a German artist Niklas Stor (1503-1562) depicting the Ottoman Turkish warriors. During this period the Ottoman empire, Hungarian kingdom and German Reich entered into almost continued warfare.
Master Niklas' work, in the tradition of master Albrecht Durer, provides plenty of information on the Ottoman riders and their equipment.
& a giraffe
enjoy
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Salvete Omnes,
Polish turn of the XIx century painter and graphic artist - Stanislaw Bohusz-Siestrzencewicz (1869-1927), disciple of Bogdan Willewalde and Jozef Brandt. Artist was very much rooted in Polish culture of Warsaw and Wilno (Vilnus nowadays). Author of many articles eg Piekno i Sztuka (Wilno 1916) [Beauty and Art]. The world depicted in his paintings was eradicated by the Red Bolsheviks 1917-1921, and later by the Nazis, Soviet Communists and Banderites 1939-45.
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| painting of Tatar captivity and slavery - painted by Jozef Brandt and Stanislaw |
also author of these wonderful drawings done in quill pen and ink, published in Wilno 1913, (the printing of drawings was done in Warsaw)
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