Heavy Sword
For Sale / Te Koop
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Motivation:The empire’s roots trace to 330 AD when Emperor Constantine the Great relocated the Roman capital to the ancient Greek city of Byzantium, renaming it Constantinople Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, centred in Constantinople. Surviving the fall of Western Rome, it endured for over a millennium until 1453. The empire preserved classical heritage while blending Greco-Roman culture with medieval Christian traditions.At its peak, the Eastern Roman Empire (often called the Byzantine Empire) spanned across Southern Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. Its core was centered in modern Greece and Turkey. Because modern borders did not exist in antiquity, here are the modern-day countries that were included in the Eastern Roman Empire at its greatest extent:
- Cyprus and Malta. Asia: Turkey (Asia Minor) Syria Lebanon Israel and Jordan Portions of Iraq and Armenia. AFRICA: Egypt Libya Tunisia Algeria. The Western Roman Empire covered most of Western and Central Europe and parts of North Africa. At its peak, it included the territories of modern-day Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, England and Wales, along with portions of Germany, The Netherlands, and coastal North Africa(including modernMorocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. While the Roman Empire existed (roughly 1st century BCE to 15th century CE), and had civilisation meanwhile a unified “Russia” did not. The vast region of the Eastern European Plain was populated by diverse, disconnected groups of nomadic herders, hunter-gatherers, and proto-Slavic tribes living in small, decentralized settlement.
- The painting “Heavy Sword” depicts: a woman – Western Europe – holds a wounded bird – Ukraine in one hand, but it is in reliable hands, and in the other hand she holds a sword and the scales of Law. With her sword she cuts the white snake – Russia, and with the scales of law Russia will be judged by international court for 2023 war and agression towords Ukraine
- painting is in Ukrainian flag colours Blue and Yellow
Materials: oil on Antwerp canvas
Size: 80H x 140W x 5D cm
Created: 14 June 2026
Price: €3200
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