During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later ...

The Crimean War, famed for the 'Charge of the Light Brigade', would fundamentally alter the balance of power in Europe and set the stage for World War One. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, the ...

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

The Russians threaten to cut off supply lines to Sevastopol and the Allied forces have taken up a final defensive line in front of the port of Balaklava. The thin red line holds against the ...

Van Gogh loved the work of English illustrators, and among his favourites was a cartoon from the London-based satirical magazine Punch about the Crimean War—where Russia pitted its forces ...

Posted in Biography, Medical Hacks, Original Art Tagged big data, Crimean War, Florence Nightingale, Istanbul was Constantinople, Nightingale rose diagram, polar area diagram, sanitation, statistics ...

Ukraine’s attacks on the Crimean Bridge and Port of Sevastopol show how it plans to retake the peninsula by cutting it off from Russia ...

A piece of art featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design plans for a Crimean War pop-up hospital has gone on display in Bristol. Brunel designed Renkioi Hospital in six days after pleas from ...

Mary Seacole statue: Why Florence Nightingale fans are angry the Crimean War nurse is being commemorated It should be a symbol of pride in a black British heroine. Instead, a statue of Mary ...

In her book on war photography, Sontag condemns Fenton for a form of imposture, while praising Jeff Wall, who, more recently, made an obviously staged photograph called Dead Troops Talk.

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.