Unknown artist
Vandal cavalryman, c. AD 500
Mosaic pavement from Bordj-Djedid, (Africa,Tunisia, Carthage).
British museum
The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution. In the year 429, eighty thousand Vandals crossed from the Iberian Peninsular, Spain, into Africa and, in the course of ten years of massacre and pillage, gained control of most of the Roman territories of North Africa.
A 16th century perception of the Vandals, 2nd half of the 16th century
Excerpt from the manuscript
Ghent University Library, Ghent, Belgium
Lucas de Heere (1534 – 29 August 1584) was a Flemish painter, poet and writer. His costume books and portraits are a valuable resource in depicting 16th-century clothing.
Lucas de Heere, a Protestant, was born in Ghent. He was trained by his father. He also studied in Antwerp. Upon his return to Ghent, he established a school of painting.
In 1568, De Heere went to France, where he was employed by Catherine de' Medici designing Gobelins tapestry. He then traveled to England, where he became an elder of the Dutch stranger church at Austin Friars. In 1570, he was employed by Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln to paint a gallery and depict the clothing and costumes of various nations.
In England he trained other young Netherlanders: John de Critz, probably Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, and possibly as well the English Robert Peake the Elder.
Some time between 1573 and 1575, working on-site, he painted Stonehenge, the sketch is now in the British Library, and is the earliest known realistic depiction of the site.
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The Vandals came to Africa at the request of Bonifacius, the military ruler of the region. Seeking to establish himself as an independent ruler in Africa, Bonifacius had defeated several Roman attempts to subdue him, until he was mastered by the newly appointed Gothic count of Africa, Sigisvult, who captured both Hippo Regius and Carthage. It is possible that Bonifacius had sought Genseric as an ally against Rome, promising him a part of Africa in return.
Genseric began a fierce persecution of the Church
Sacking of Rome (455), between 1833 and 1836
Oil on canvas
88x117,9 см.
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov, original name Charles Bruleau, Bryullov (born Dec. 12, 1799, St. Petersburg, Russia—died June 11, 1852, Marsciano, near Rome, Papal States), Russian painter who combined technical proficiency and classical academic training with a Romantic spontaneity to produce some of the liveliest examples of Russian art of the period.
Bryullov was descended from French Huguenots, and his father was a sculptor. Bryullov was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1809–21). He studied in Italy from 1823, painting his best-known work, the monumental “Last Day of Pompeii” (1830–33). Much of his continuing reputation rests on his more intimate portraits and his watercolours and travel sketches. More on Karl Bryullov
The Vandals were Arian heretics, who under their leader Genseric began a fierce persecution of the Church wherever they encountered it. The tortures that many thousands endured in their confession of the Faith are too numerous; the clergy were singled out for special cruelty.
Hermann Knackfuß (1848–1915) Burning at the stake, c. 1890
Wood engraving
28.4 cm × 21.6 cm
Hermann Knackfuss (German: Hermann Knackfuß) (August 11, 1848, Wissen, Rhenish Prussia – May 17, 1915) was a German painter and writer on art. He is known for his historical paintings, but his most-recognized work is his illustration on behalf of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Peoples of Europe, Guard your Dearest Goods, which has become an iconic symbol of the use of the yellow peril to justify European imperialism in Asia at the end of the nineteenth century.
Knackfuss studied at the Düsseldorf Academy between 1869 to 1874. In 1870, he interrupted his studies to serve as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War. His illustrations of the war's progress during his service would appear in the magazine Die Gartenlaube. While studying at Düsseldorf, He won the state prize in 1874, which paid for his studies at Rome from 1875 to 1878. In 1880, Knackfuss was appointed to the Cassel Academy. Initially, he taught anatomy, but from 1890 onwards he also taught history of art (1890).
Knackfuss primarily created historical paintings, many of which depicted events in the history of Prussia. Early in his career, his paintings were characterized by a sometimes pedantic-looking realism that focused on small details such as the historical accuracy of the costumes. From around 1890, his historical works developed a more impressionist style.
Knackfuss also traveled extensively to Greece, Spain, Italy, Asia Minor and Egypt, and accompanied Emperor Wilhelm II to Palestine in 1898. Knackfuss died of typhus in 1915 during World War I. More on Hermann Knackfuss
Negotiations between Bonifacius and the Vandals broke down, and Bonifacius was soundly defeated. Bonifacius subsequently barricaded himself inside Hippo Regius with the Vandals besieging the city. Inside, Saint Augustine and his priests prayed for relief from the invaders, knowing full well that the fall of the city would spell conversion or death for many Roman Christians.
Heinrich Leutemann (1824–1905) The Sack of North Africa by the Vandals
The Sack of Rome by the Vandals, between circa 1860 and circa 1880
Color steel engraving
32.8 cm × 42.0 cm
Glasdiasammlung, Berlin
Gottlob Heinrich (Henrik) Leutemann (8 October 1824 — 14 December 1905) was a German artist and book illustrator. He was born in Leipzig and studied there.
He produced lithographs for instructional posters. In the 1850s, he worked on pictures of animals for a zoological Atlas.
With a professor named A. Kirchoff, who wrote the text, Leutemann produced Graphic Pictures of Native Life in Distant Lands, illustrating the Typical Races of Mankind (1888).
He also worked with classical themes; his drawings include Battle of the Amazons, the Acropolis at Athens, and The astronomer Ptolemy putting up a stone, on the authority of the Aristotle commentator Olympiodorus (6th century), tablet in the Temple of Serapis in Canobus commemorating his major astronomical achievements (1876).
Today we especially commemorate the Orthodox faithful whom the Vandals burned to death in their church, who went on singing hymns and praising God until the moment of their death. We also commemorate the three hundred Martyrs in Carthage who died by the sword rather than submit to Arian baptism.
The death of Genseric in 454 brought little relief, for after a short hiatus his successors Huneric (477-484) and Gonthamund (484-497) continued the persecution as viciously as before. Christian Africa lived under the Vandal yoke for almost 100 years: freedom from persecution was not secure until Justinian's forces overcame and drove off the Vandals in 523-525. The African Church, once a beacon of Christianity, never recovered its former vitality. More on Martyrs of Africa
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