Showing posts with label great sieges in art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great sieges in art. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Sack of Magdeburg

 Sack of Magdeburg - Wikipedia Today's anniversary. Considered the worst massacre of the 30YW.

The Siege of Magdeburg (1631) (Peeter Meulener) - Nationalmuseum - 17230

Thursday, 2 April 2026

Breda 1625


 Belagerung von Breda durch die Spanier - am Entsatzversuch 1625 war das englische Truppenkontingent unter Mansfeld beteiligt; Gemälde von Pieter Snayers

Thursday, 19 March 2026

Sunday, 15 March 2026

Cornelis de Wael - Siege of Ostend

 

Probably a copy of the below painting

Field camp by Peeter Snayers, likely depicting a scene from the Siege of Ostend (1601–1604).

Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Brno during the Swedish siege

 Siege of Brno - Wikipedia

Artist
Hieronymus Benno Bayer, Hans Jörg Zeiser
Title
Brno during the Swedish siege (image section)

File:Veduta z obléhání Brna Švédy v roce 1645.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Milan says 'There is great exhibition still running in Spilberk castle in Brno related to this siege. It was made of historian and grear reenactor of this era Tomas Koch from Die Kompanie.
If somebody is going to vist Brno, he definitely should visit' Hrad Špilberk - Muzeum města Brna

Saturday, 27 December 2025

The Surrender of Breda

 


La rendición de Breda (English: The Surrender of Breda, also known as Las lanzas – The Lances) is a painting by the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez. He painted it during the years 1634 and 1635, inspired by his visit to Italy with Ambrogio Spinola, the Genoese-born Spanish general who conquered Breda on June 5, 1625. The painting depicts the exchange of the key of Breda from the Dutch to the Spanish.



Thursday, 13 November 2025

Siege of Carlisle (November 1745)


 Siege of Carlisle (November 1745) - Wikipedia

The first siege of Carlisle was an important event of the 1745–1746 Jacobite rising. Jacobite forces loyal to Prince Charles Edward Stuart captured the city of Carlisle and Carlisle Castle on 14–15 November 1745.

According to the Chevalier de Johnstone, the Jacobites held their fire in case the defenders found out how small was the calibre of their guns.[2]

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Storming of Basing House.

 Siege of Basing House - Wikipedia

From the BCW project.

The storm was brief and bloody, lasting less than two hours. The assault was led by the regiments of Pickering, Dalbier, Montagu and Sir Hardress Waller, attacking from different directions. There were too few defenders to withstand the massive strength of the New Model Army. The Royalists were quickly driven back from the outer defences to make a last stand at the gatehouse of the Old House. A call for a parley from the defenders was ignored by the enraged Parliamentarians. Civilians as well as soldiers were slaughtered in the assault, including a number of Catholic priests. Between one and two hundred defenders were killed, the rest taken prisoner. The Marquis of Winchester is said to have been captured whilst hiding in a bread-oven. The architect Inigo Jones, who was among the civilians at Basing, was carried out naked, wrapped in a blanket.

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Siege of Schenkenschans 1636

Siege of Schenkenschans by Gerrit van Santen.

 The siege of Schenkenschans (30 July 1635 – 30 April 1636) was a major siege of the Eighty Years' War. In a successful campaign the Army of Flanders, commanded by Spanish general Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, captured Schenkenschans along with a number of important towns, reversing recent Dutch gains and opening the Dutch Republic to a possible invasion. The Dutch StadtholderFredrick Henry, pushed the republic's military efforts to their limit to recapture the fortress of Schenkenschans to counter the threat to the exposed Dutch heartland. He succeeded in doing so after a costly nine month siege.

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Siege of Boulogne as depicted in the Tudors Season 4

 Watch here. Not brilliant but unusual to see this period. 


Saturday, 23 November 2024

Friday, 22 November 2024

Siege of Philippsburg (1676)

 Here. I think the Royal English Regiment was involved.


Tuesday, 19 November 2024

The storming of Aardenburg 1672

 Here at the Rijksmuseum. Read about the assault here