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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...
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Pirna and the Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War: Destruction, Memory, and the Persistence of Art.

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  Author - Brian Hawkeswood                                                          Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung Why was there a Thirty Years’ War ? To answer this is to step into a corridor of shattered crowns and shattered certainties, where religion, ambition, dynastic pride, and fear entangled themselves like ivy around the cracked foundations of the Holy Roman Empire . The war began in 1618, sparked by the famous Defenestration of Prague , when Protestant nobles hurled two Catholic regents out of a castle window—not just in fury, but in a gesture that symbolized a world on the brink of religious rupture. But it would not end as a mere squabble between Catholics and Protestants. Jaroslav Borita of Martinice and Vilém Slavata of Chlum getting defenestrated, which triggered the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), Instea...
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