Battle Scenes

Burgonet with Falling Buffe

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix, 1846

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi|Suzi, dated A.H. 904/1498–99 CE

Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle

Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar

John Trumbull, 1789

Shield

Girolamo da Treviso, ca. 1535

Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Eretria Painter, ca. 420 BCE

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs, ca. 450 BCE

Kylix

Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy, ca. 490–480 BCE

Nihon Rekishi Gaho nos. 1–10|Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 1-10

Matsumoto Fūko 松本楓湖, 1892–1893

Tornado–Zeus Battling Typhon, from Erasmus Darwin's "Botanic Garden"

William Blake|Henry Fuseli|John Johnson|Erasmus Darwin, August 1, 1795

Sea Battle

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century, 17th century (?)

Naumachia in the Court of Palazzo Pitti, from an Album with Plates documenting the Festivities of the 1589 Wedding of Arch Duke Ferdinand I de’ Medici and Christine of Lorraine

Bernardo Buontalenti (Bernardo delle Girandole)|Orazio Scarabelli, 1589–1592

Plate 10: The Fall of Jericho, from 'The Battles of the Old Testament'

Antonio Tempesta|Nicolaus van Aelst, ca. 1590–ca. 1610

Battle Scene

Giovanni Bernardi da Castel Bolognese, model ca. 1540 (cast 16th or 17th century)

Terracotta fragment of a bowl

Terracotta cinerary urn

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Group of Rhodes 12264, ca. 540 BCE

Hydria fragment

Princeton Painter, ca. 540 BCE

Maffet Ledger: Drawing

Combat of Nude Men, after Raphael

Eugène Delacroix|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), ca. 1823

Spanish Patriots Attacking the French Banditti – Loyal Britons Lending a Lift

James Gillray, 1808

The Victory of Khorgos

Jean Denis Attiret|Jacques Philippe Le Bas|Charles Nicolas Cochin II, 1774

Cup and saucer

Vienna|Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period, ca. 1725–35

Fan

Carl Gustav Klingstedt, 1715–25

The Battle of Diomedes and Aeneas (from the Story of Achilles)

Jan van Orley, ca. 1720–30

The Battle of the Amalekites

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1645–52

Death on the Battlefield, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1650–64

Death on a battlefield, atop a horse riding towards the left, wearing a hat with many feathers, other figures of Death battling to left and right in the background

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1646

Combat of Cavalry

Jacques Courtois, n.d.

Cardinal (le Bret?) in oval with allegorigal figures and a battle scene

Grégoire Huret, 17th century

Sea Battle

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini), 1596–1669

The Destruction of the Pharaoh’s Army

Hendrick de Clerck, late 16th–early 17th century

The Sabine Women Stopping the Battle between the Romans and the Sabines from the Story of the Romans and the Sabines

Nicolas van Orley|Joost van Herzeele|Gerard de Jode, 1570–85

Cabasset

Buffe

The Arrest of Christ, from The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ

Albrecht Altdorfer, ca. 1513

"Khusrau Parviz's Charge against Bahram Chubina", Folio 707v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Bashdan Qara|Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1530–35

"The Battle of Pashan Begins", Folio 243v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

'Abd al-Vahhab|Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1530–35

"Battle between Alexander and Darius", Folio 279 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Sultan Muhammad Nur|Nizami, A.H. 931/1524–25 CE

Copy after the Fresco with the Battle of Constantine in the Vatican Palace

Giulio Romano, 1499–1546

Scenes from Matthew 10: 34-38

Daniel Hopfer, 1490–1536

"The Combat of Tus and Human," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1330–40

The Sun and the Moon Stand Still, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Camden Press|Scribner and Welford|Dalziel Brothers|Henry Hugh Armstead, 1881