Fantastic War

Examples of Fantastic War in the following topics:

• Events of the War

  • In French-speaking Canada, it is known as the War of the Conquest, while it is called the Seven Years' War in English-speaking Canada (North America, 1754–1763), Pomeranian War (with Sweden and Prussia, 1757–1762), Third Carnatic War (on the Indian subcontinent, 1757–1763), and Third Silesian War (with Prussia and Austria, 1756–1763).
  • 1762 brought two new countries into the war.
  • Britain declared war against Spain and Portugal followed by joining the war on Britain's side.
  • In the Fantastic War (1762-63) in South America, Spanish forces conquered the Portuguese territories of Colonia do Sacramento and Rio Grande de São Pedro and forced the Portuguese to surrender and retreat.
  • The Seven Years' War is sometimes considered the first true world war.

• Agricultural Initiatives and Recovery

  • Unlike urban areas, many of which witnessed fantastic growth in the 1920s, rural areas in the United States experienced economic crisis long before the onset of the Great Depression.
  • World War I created extremely beneficial conditions for farmers and, consequently, easier times for often struggling rural workers.
  • Because of the war effort, agricultural production and prices were record high.
  • The production remained at the same level but the demand was no longer driven by the war effort.
  • Simultaneously, the extreme production of the war and post-war years had a devastating impact on the soil.

• Painting

  • At the Villa of the Mysteries, just outside of Pompeii, a fantastic scene filled with life-size figures depicts a ritual element from a Dionysian mystery cult .
  • The atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet includes a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Trojan War.
  • Two panels on the south wall relate the beginnings of the Trojan War.
  • These panels relate the beginnings of the Trojan War while portraying womanly ideals.
  • All of these paintings are related to one another through themes such as marriage, womanly virtue, and the Trojan War.

• The Julio-Claudians

  • Following Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE, Octavian was thrust into a civil war with competing generals and Senators for power over the large but unstable Roman empire.
  • Following the defeat of his rivals, Augustus stabilized the empire, weak from nearly a century of civil war.
  • The Senate declared Galba emperor following Nero's death in 68 CE; however, the event sparked a civil war the following year as generals from around the empire vied for power.
  • The surviving frescos provide excellent examples of Pompeiian fourth-style painting, a fantastical style that inspired Renaissance grottesche when portions of the palace were discovered at the end of the 1400s .

• Painting in the Early Roman Empire

  • During this period, wall painting began to develop a more fantastical personality.
  • Fantastical details, Egyptian motifs, and ornamental garlands from the Third Style continued into the Fourth Style.
  • The atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet includes a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Trojan War.
  • Two panels on the south wall relate the beginnings of the Trojan War.
  • These panels relate the beginnings of the Trojan War while portraying womanly ideals.

• The Crusades

  • The result was intense piety, an interest in religious affairs, and religious propaganda advocating a just war to reclaim Palestine from the Muslims.
  • Participation in such a war was seen as a form of penance that could counterbalance sin.
  • His travels there culminated in the Council of Clermont in November, where, according to the various speeches attributed to him, he gave an impassioned sermon to a large audience of French nobles and clergy, graphically detailing the fantastical atrocities being committed against pilgrims and eastern Christians.
  • Urban talked about the violence of European society and the necessity of maintaining the Peace of God; about helping the Greeks, who had asked for assistance; about the crimes being committed against Christians in the east; and about a new kind of war, an armed pilgrimage, and of rewards in heaven, where remission of sins was offered to any who might die in the undertaking.
  • Combining the idea of pilgrimage to the Holy Land with that of waging a holy war against infidels, Urban received an enthusiastic response to his speeches and soon after began collecting military forces to begin the First Crusade.

• Culture in the Thirties

  • Directors frequently found a way to manipulate the codes that were enforced more and more loosely during the post-World War period and finally abandoned  in the 1960s.  
  • Pulp fiction magazines began to feature distinctive, gritty adventure heroes that combined elements of hard-boiled detective fiction and the fantastic adventures of the earlier pulp novels.
  • Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother," Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, 1936

• Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

  • In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar began the construction of the Basilica Julia, funded by spoils from the Gallic War, in the Roman forum.
  • The surviving frescoes provide excellent examples of Pompeiian fourth-style painting, a fantastical style that inspired Renaissance grotesque when portions of the palace were discovered at the end of the 1400s.
  • Following Nero's forced suicide in 68 CE, Rome plunged into a year of civil war as four generals vied against each other for power and Vespasian emerged victorious.

• Roman Sculpture under the Republic

  • They are accompanied by a multitude of fantastic creatures, Tritons and Nereides (sea nymphs) who form a retinue for the wedding couple, which, like the census scene, can be read from left to right.
  • During this time, civil wars threatened the empire, and individual men began to gain more power.

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