JCC [Image heavy]A thread for art: See note on page 776

briannacherrygarcia: Mermaid Moana

https://www.deviantart.com/briannacherrygarcia/art/Mermaid-Moana-670733051

 

Exploring Hellas by TyrannoNinja

"Around 1900 BC, an Egyptian expedition has crossed the Mediterranean and is exploring the land that will someday be known as Greece. Unbeknown to them, the native inhabitants are watching them with every bit the same degree of curiosity...

This isn't meant to represent an actual historical event, but rather a fictional "what if" scenario. That said, the ancient Greeks did have a few legends about Egyptians settling on their shores, and these would be the inspiration behind this artwork."

 

briannacherrygarcia: Jasmine

https://www.deviantart.com/briannacherrygarcia/art/Jasmine-659323754

 

Pyrrhus of Epirus by JFoliveras

Spoiler: text

PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS: Stepping out of Alexander’s shadow.

Pyrrhus was a second cousin of Alexander the Great. Pyrrhus’ paternal grandfather Arybbas and Alexander’s maternal grandfather Neoptolemus I were brothers. Despite being related with each other, Pyrrhus never met his famous cousin. In fact, Pyrrhus was born shortly after Alexander’s death. If Alexander had spent the last ten years of his short life in Asia, Pyrrhus was about to make a name for himself as an enemy of Carthage and early Rome.

Following the death of Alexander, the short-lived Macedonian Empire immediately fell into chaos. It took a 10-year war to build it, and a 40-year one to decide who would inherit the throne. It was during the Wars of the Successors that Pyrrhus was born in Epirus, north-western Greece. When he was two years old, his father was dethroned and killed by order of the Macedonian king Cassander. The same Cassander had also ordered the murder of Alexander’s mother Olympias, as well as Alexander’s Sogdian wife Roxana and their only son. Because Cassander threatened to kill Pyrrhus too, the baby was sent into exile in Illyria. There he was raised by a member of his own dynasty, Beroea, the Epirote wife of the Illyrian king Glaukias (the same Glaukias had fought Alexander in the past). As a teenager, Pyrrhus was restored to the throne of Epirus, only to be banished again by Cassander; served as an officer in the Wars of the Successors, fighting in the Battle of Ipsus (301 BC); was taken hostage in Alexandria in Egypt; and ultimately seized the throne of Epirus, with support from Ptolemy Soter of Egypt. Years later, Pyrrhus received a message from Magna Gaecia. Tarentum, a Greek colony in southern Italy, needed military assistance against the Romans. Rome at the time was still a young republic gradually gaining control of Italy. No one could imagine yet that the Roman Republic would eventually become a vast superpower, but it was rapidly increasing its size and military might. The Tarentines saw that the Romans had violated a peace treaty, and as a reaction to a growing Roman military presence in the Greek colony, the Tarentines attacked the Romans sinking their ships. Tarentum feared that Rome would respond with a devastating force, and out of desperation, they asked Pyrrhus for military assistance. Pyrrhus entered Italy commanding a large army that included war elephants. The source of the elephants is not clear, but they may have originally been part of the 500 Indian elephant herd that Chandragupta Maurya offered to Seleucus Nicator, which Seleucus used at the Battle of Ipsus (see my previous post). War elephants had just been introduced to Greece from India, and it was in the Pyrrhic War that the Romans faced them for the first time. A PYRRHIC VICTORY: The Macedonian phalanx and the elephants gave Pyrrhus two victories over the Romans, both with heavy casualties. After his costly victory at the Battle of Asculum, Pyrrhus said “One more such victory, and we are undone”. This is the origin of the term “Pyrrhic victory”, still used today. While in Italy, Pyrrhus received two offers simultaneously. In one letter, the Macedonians asked Pyrrhus to take the throne of Macedon, since their last king, Ptolemy Keraunos, son of Ptolemy Soter, had been killed during the Celtic invasion of Greece. The other letter came from Sicily. The Greek colonies there asked Pyrrhus to drive Carthage out of the island. Pyrrhus chose Sicily over Macedon, making plans to invade the Carthaginian Empire once he had finished with Sicily. While Pyrrhus was fighting the Carthaginians, Rome was recruiting a new army. Pyrrhus had to leave Sicily and return to Italy, where he was decisively defeated by the Romans at the Battle of Beneventum. His Italian expedition had come to an end. Pyrrhus returned to Greece to defeat Antigonus II Gonatas in battle, after which he seized the Macedonian throne. He was then king of Epirus and Macedon. Pyrrhus was finally killed during a street battle in Argos. When Pyrrhus was fighting an Argive soldier, the soldier’s old mother, who was watching from a rooftop how Pyrrhus attempted to kill her son, threw a tile to the Epirote’s head, leaving him either death or unconscious. Then, a soldier finished the job taking the king’s head. He messed with the wrong soldier’s mother.

 

Flick-the-Thief: Empress

https://www.deviantart.com/flick-the-thief/art/Empress-775562320

 

Flick-the-Thief: Tsarina Katarin

https://www.deviantart.com/flick-the-thief/art/Tsarina-Katarin-774047895

 

https://www.deviantart.com/chill13/art/Buddies-Sticker-833012103

 

Blademaster by Tooth-w

 

[ f a l l ] by pricessofcubes

"a lost palace
a dying titan"


[...] by pricessofcubes

"the [ p r i s o n ] – eternal, a peaceful dream. the [ w a t c h e r ] – an intransigent past, an uncertain future. the [ k n i g h t ] – an aberrant existence, their greed shall be their downfall."


Flute by pricessofcubes

"'Our trade is revered and feared, young lad. A song can be a bard's bread or his sword. It can lift an armies spirit or crush a man with ridicule. But always watch your #flute, for some songs listen back.' From the Memoirs of Jul, the Dark Bard."


CORE RUSH FRONTIER by pricessofcubes

"Lol definitely not coming soon "


[ s t e a m ] by pricessofcubes

"'Oh shining knight, in a far land you will slay the titan and feast on it's fiery heart. Where two become one your curse will be lifted'"

 

acrylic gouache by Wiggers123



watercolour by Wiggers123

 

Flick-the-Thief: Supergirl

https://www.deviantart.com/flick-the-thief/art/Commission-supergirl-212696242

 

Paladins' Tales: Inquisitress by Lipatov

 

artsbycarlos: Alice

https://www.deviantart.com/artsbycarlos/art/Alice-697113738

 

Art from the "manuscript Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India, consisting of 72 full-color hand-painted images of men and women of the various castes and religious and ethnic groups found in Madura, India at that time. Each drawing was made on mica, a transparent, flaky mineral which splits into thin, transparent sheets. As indicated on the presentation page, the album was compiled by the Indian writing master at an English school established by American missionaries in Madura, and given to the Reverend William Twining.

The manuscript shows Indian dress and jewelry adornment in the Madura region as they appeared before the onset of Western influences on South Asian dress and style. Each illustrated portrait is captioned in English and in Tamil, and the title page of the work includes English, Tamil, and Telugu."
by the way of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Seventy-two_Specimens_of_Castes_in_India

 

artsbycarlos: Jasmine

https://www.deviantart.com/artsbycarlos/art/Princess-Jasmine-703714086

 

]artsbycarlos: Starfire

https://www.deviantart.com/artsbycarlos/art/Starfire-734962155

 

artsbycarlos: Moana

https://www.deviantart.com/artsbycarlos/art/Moana-675038058

 

nightwing1975: Commander Shelby

https://www.deviantart.com/nightwing1975/art/commander-shelby-604852093