ITT: the best paintings of historical events

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Fuck Ronald duck

Not a painting but this movie is a work of art.
youtube.com/watch?v=k97nvOSBDnk

Soviet production of War and Peace. It is 8 hours long and the visuals are extremely detailed

I use this as my background

That's one of my favorite paintings. If you ever go see it sometime it's fucking HUGE. Takes up an entire wall of a room at the Louve.

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what event is this?

what the fuck is that?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_La_Rochelle

may not have happened but whatever

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Welcome

>Miloš Obrenović inciting his countrymen against the Ottoman Empire and initiating the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815

>Serbs, led by Archbishop Arsenije III, fleeing Old Serbia during the Great Serb Migration of 1690–91

>the installation of the Sigismund Bell in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków in 1521

>Albrecht Hohenzollern, the Duke of Prussia paying tribute and swearing allegiance to King Sigismund I the Old in Kraków's market square on 10 April 1525

for some reason the full-size version is poor quality online

>Adoption of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. King Stanislaus Augustus entering St John's Cathedral to swear in the new national constitution.

>the Union of Lublin - signed July 1, 1569 - created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

>the Battle of Grunwald and the victory of the allied Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the Teutonic Order in 1410

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But he wasn't driving

>the protest of Tadeusz Rejtan (lower right) against the First Partition of Poland during the Partition Sejm of 1773

>coronation of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan on 16 April 1346 (Easter) in Skopje

The murder of Franz Ferdinand,remixed by furfags