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A-Level: War or revolution in 2D works


Dover Castle, aerial view
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The Art of Conquest in England and ...


Mexico City side, Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and View of Mexico City, New Spain, late 17th century (Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City)
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Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and ...


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Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace


Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico, 1848, oil on canvas, 68.6 × 63.5 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas)
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Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico



Brooklyn Biombo (detail)
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Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...


Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano (detail)
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Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano


Alexander Mosaic (detail)
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Alexander Mosaic from the House of the ...


Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus (detail)
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Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus



Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa (detail)
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Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the ...


Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso, Cassone with the Conquest of Trebizond, 1460s, tempera, gold and silver on wood, 9 1/2 x 77 x 32 7/8 inches / 100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Cassone with the Conquest of Trebizond


Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas, September - December, 1830 (exhibited and purchased by the state from the Salon of 1831) 2.6 x 3.25m (Louvre, Paris)
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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People


Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail)
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Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine ...



Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the massacre at Chios; Greek families awaiting death or slavery, 1824 Salon, oil on canvas, 164" × 139" (419 cm × 354 cm) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at ...


Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, oil on canvas, 12 ft 10 in x 16 ft 3 in. (3.92 x 4.96m) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus


José Clemente Orozco, Dive Bomber and Tank, 1940, fresco, six panels, 275 x 91.4 cm each, 275 x 550 cm overall (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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José Clemente Orozco, Dive Bomber and Tank


Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (I funerali del anarchico Galli), 1910-11, oil on canvas, 198.7 x 259.1 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli



Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 349 cm × 776 cm. (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid)
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica


Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series, 1994, B&W RC print & ink, photo by Cynthia Preston ©Shirin Neshat (courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels)
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Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah ...


Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, oil on canvas, 378.5 x 647.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware


Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770, oil on canvas, 152.6 x 214.5 cm (National Gallery of Canada)
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Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe



Top scene (left) and middle scene (right) of featherworkers (details), Bernardino de Sahagún and collaborators, General History of the Things of New Spain, also called the Florentine Codex, vol. 3, book 9, f. 64v, 1575-1577, watercolor, paper, contemporary vellum Spanish binding, open (approx.): 32 x 43 cm, closed (approx.): 32 x 22 x 5 cm (Medicea Laurenziana Library, Florence, Italy)
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Bernardino de Sahagún and collaborators, Florentine Codex


Detail, Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814-15, oil on canvas, (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
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Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808


Francisco de Goya, And there's nothing to be done (Y no hai remedio), plate 15 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra), 1810, etching, drypoint, burin and burnisher, 14 x 16.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to be ...


Normans with horses on boats, crossing to England, in preparation for battle (detail), Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, embroidered wool on linen, 20 inches high (Bayeux Museum)
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The Bayeux Tapestry



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