The soldiers were part of the Allies’ Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—also known as the Monuments Men—which ...

A nurse's scrapbook sheds new light on the famous World War One Christmas Truce. Dedication service held for miner and soldier who died seven years after being wounded in France. A service ...

There's a darkness in the work of venerated Canadian war artist Bill MacDonnell, who has spent three decades travelling the world as a self-described silent witness. MacDonnell's paintings ...

Each of these paintings are signed by World War II pilots, a small touch that Melton says leaves a big impact. “One of these ...

Bill Mauldin, World War II's most famous cartoonist, is one of them. In 1943, when he was 21, Mauldin's division shipped overseas to North Africa. Mauldin had been drawing cartoons since he was a ...

Learning about famous ... art. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg’s early life, including his dyslexia and pacifist work as a neuropsychiatric technician during World War 2, shaped his ...

Iconic paintings ... War. The monochromatic, chaotic composition was inspired by the bombing of the town of Guernica. The painting’s distorted figures and intense emotion make it one of the most ...

“The Venus aspect of it led me to one of my favorite paintings, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, and looking at that gave me my colors, then we took this uber-feminine interpretation of ...

What the public thought about the war ... a famous British film was shown in cinemas about The Battle of the Somme. A few parts of the film were acted but most of it was real. Around one million ...

It took three trips to Milan, Italy, before I finally got to see one of the most revered paintings, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest painter of the Renaissance period.

Why did World War One start? What were the causes of World War One and how did the war develop? Find out in our guide. What role did the British Empire play in the war? What role did the British ...