Alphonse-Marie de Neuville, a disciple of the great Delacroix created some remarkable military drawings and paintings during Romanticism. He, and many other names were deniers of the Academism professed by names such as Gérôme. It is a fantastic period of Art - the conflict of these two movements, their output and the legacy to mankind, to ourselves in present times and to the ones that will come after our depart.
Here's the drawing: Alaric, the chieftain of the Visigoths. Rome is visible in the background. The event is the sack of Rome in 410 a.C., something definitive for the fall of the Western Roman empire.
About this miniature ... Phew! I sincerely don't know what to say! I spoke before about the Academism and another art movement comes to my mind: Frankly I think that Andrea Jula, together with Adriano Laruccia is the biggest name when it comes to revival the Classissism in the miniatures that compose our hobby! I'm speechless - it is absolutely brilliant!
So full of character and 75mm - perfect! I do hope this is Pegaso returning to what they do best given some of the uncharacteristically mediocre figures we have had from them in the past 12 months or so.
I do like this one a lot and looking to paint a horse , am I the only one who sees the legs a bit wooden especially around the knees and lack of detail at the fetlocks.