Artillery

Acerca de Artillery

Inception: 1911

Resumen

Artillery es una pintura al óleo sobre lienzo del artista francés Roger de La Fresnaye, de 1911. Representa soldados franceses, artilleros, un oficial francés y un cañón de campaña (una pieza de artillería) remolcado. La obra se encuentra en la colección del Metropolitan Museum of Art, en Nueva York. Referencias Pinturas de 1911 Pinturas de Roger de La Fresnaye Pinturas en el Metropolitan Museum of Art Pinturas cubistas Pinturas de guerra

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Notable quotes

“Ahead, muffled by distance, was the sound of artillery in the night- always more terrifying than it is by day, though less effective.”
— Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle, pp. 270-271
“In peace the cry is for mobility, in war for weight of shell.”
— Lt Col Alan F. Brooke (later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke), The Evolution of Artillery in the Great War (1925)
“...если угодно знать, «Войну и мир» читал… Вот, действительно, книга. До самого конца прочитал — и с удовольствием. А почему? Потому что писал не обормот какой-нибудь, а артиллерийский офицер. У вас десятка? Вы со мной…”
— ...If you really want to know, I've read War and Peace. Now there's a book for you. Read it right through — and enjoyed it. Why? Because it wasn't written by any old scribbler but by an artillery officer.
“Artillery is an arm equally formidable both in the offensive and defensive.”
— Antoine-Henri Jomini, (1838), article XLVI, as translated by W. P. Craighill (1862)
“The poorer the infantry, the more artillery it needs; the American infantry needs all it can get.”
— French General Koechlin-Schwartz, speaking to U.S. General George S. Patton on two occasions. Reported in The Patton Papers, 1940–1945, ed. Martin Blumenson; George Smith Patton (Houghton Mifflin, 1972), pp. 520-521
“Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.”
— Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944)

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