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·STONE-AGE WARRIOR By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 12"h x 9"w OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON CANVAS BOARD - See BIGGER PICTURE CLICK HERE if you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact us - click here |
Firelight flickers as a prehistoric, caveman
warrior charges an unseen enemy. He is ready
to strike with flint pointed spear. This
early human warrior is stripped for action,
wearing only a skin loincloth. The cave walls
are decorated with paintings and pictures
representing the life of the hunter-gatherer
community. Perhaps he is defending his tribe
against a ferocious Stone Age saber-toothed
tiger, or is attacking an enemy cave, locked
in early tribal warfare?
STONE AGE WARRIORS 50,000 - 5,000 B.C.
Many advances in stone working and toolmaking
took place during the Stone Age, resulting
in a plethora of specialized tools. One particularly
important innovation was "hafting"
- the attachment of a handle to an existing
tool, such as a stone blade. The first hafted
implements were spears. Tipped with fine
stone points, or "microliths,"
the resulting weapons were sharp, durable
and deadly. Spears were used primarily for
fishing and bringing down large game, but
spearmen surely employed them against human
enemies as well.
Religious practices also evolved during this
epoch, becoming increasingly complex and
sophisticated. People's awareness of their
own mortality — humans in the Stone Age lived,
on average, less than 30 years — brought
about the practices of ancestor worship and
ritual burial. Early forms of shamanism also
developed. Holy men called shamans were believed
to have the power to commune with spirits.
Rock and cave paintings from this period
suggest that they may have practiced rituals
akin to magic to heal the sick, for example,
or ensure a successful hunt, or bring about
favorable weather.
The presence of such individuals indicates
that human societies were diversifying, with
different people filling different roles.
As societies grew in complexity, the need
for organized leadership increased. By the
close of the Stone Age, hierarchical social
structures were leading to centralized authority
and the origination of government. Evidence
of this trend has been inferred from ancient
settlement patterns found in Greece and Southern
France, and on the Iberian peninsula.
Text by Rick Goodman designer of Empire Earth Computer Game.
STONE AGE WARRIOR ( circa 25000 B.C.)
Pre-History, Original Oil Painting By Mark
Churms
ANCIENT ROMAN HISTORY- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 30"h x 24"w OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - FRAMED (outer dimensions 35"h x 29"w) - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON FINE LINEN - See BIGGER FRAMED PICTURE CLICK HERE |
Having thrown back the Helvetian assault,
Gaius Julius Caesar directs his roman legions
to take the offensive at the Battle of Bibracte,
58 BC.
Ancient Roman History, Original Oil Painting
By Mark Churms
NEW! MEDIEVAL CRUSADES HISTORY- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·KNIGHT TEMPLAR 1256 A.D. By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 30"h x 20"w OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON FINE LINEN - See BIGGER PICTURE CLICK HERE |
As the population of the thriving town of
Atlit (in modern day Israel) flees to the
protection of the castle walls; a brother-knight
who is commanded to patrol the shoreline,
approaches. The Templar garrison prepares
to defend the fortress against the approaching
muslim army. In fact the castle will withstand
this coming assault and will not be abandoned
by the Templars until after the fall of Acre
to the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt in 1291.
The Templars are the first monastic order
of Crusader Knights. Founded in the early
twelfth century when Hugh de Payens and eight
comrades swore to protect Christian Pilgrims
of the Catholic Church traveling from Europe
to the Holy sites in "Outremer"(the
land across the sea) against attacks from
bands of Muslim raiders. The order is based
at the captured Al-Asqua Mosque (which is
commonly known as the "Temple of Solomon"
by Europeans of the day). The mosque is given
to the order by King Baldwin of the kingdom
of Jerusalem in 1120. It is located near
to the famous Dome of The Rock, on the Temple
Mount and is reputedly the site of the first
Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, completed by
King Solomon in 953 BC, and finally destroyed
by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586
BC.
Brother-Knight Of The Order Of The Poor Knights
Of Christ And Of The Temple Of King Solomon,
Atlit, The Holy Land 1256 AD.
13th Century, Crusaders History Masterpiece
Giclee Reproduction on Canvas and Art Print
by Mark Churms available.
MEDIEVAL SCOTTISH HISTORY- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·1298 A.D. WILLIAM WALLACE By Mark Churms
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In chain mail and wearing a 'great helm',
Scottish hero, William Wallace (Braveheart)
mounted on a white warhorse, leads his brave
soldiers on the offensive from Scotland to
attack England itself. The Scots destroyed
an English Army the previous year at the
Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. Wallace
carries a standard of the Cross of Saint
Andrew and has a coat-of-arms displayed on
his shield.
BRAVE HEART - WILLIAM WALLACE
Scotland, 1298 AD
13th Century, Scottish History Masterpiece
Giclee Reproduction on Canvas and Art Print
by Mark Churms available.
MEDIEVAL SCOTTISH HISTORY- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·1314 A.D. ROBERT THE BRUCE By Mark Churms
- THE ORIGINAL 24"h x 18"w OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON FINE LINEN - See BIGGER PICTURE CLICK HERE |
Robert Bruce "King of Scots", in
his great helm, chain mail and mounted on
his galloping warhorse, charges with his
heavy knights against the disintegrating
English Army of Edward II. The second day
of the Battle of Bannockburn (near Stirling
castle, Scotland) June 24th, 1314 A.D. sees
victory for the Scottish army!
ROBER THE BRUCE -THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN
Scotland, 1314 AD
14th Century, Scottish History Masterpiece
Giclee Reproduction on Canvas and Art Print
by Mark Churms available.
MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR 1846-48 - Classic Naval Art from MarkChurms.com
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NEW! ·U.S. NAVY CAPTURES MONTEREY By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 24"h x 36"w ACRYLIC PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON ARTIT's CANVAS - See BIGGER FRAMED PICTURE CLICK HERE |
US marines and sailors land at Monterey Bay
in California from ships of the US Navy's
Pacific fleet (including, from left to right;
Sloops of War USS Cyane and USS Levant with
Frigate, USS Savannah in the distance) .
The soldiers take down the Mexican flag and
raise the American Stars and Stripes in its
place over the old customs house on the shore.
U.S. NAVY CAPTURES MONTEREY - July, 1846 - Monterey, California, USA
Mixican-American war of 1846-48 Military
History Giclee Art Print By Mark Churms available.
WILD WEST- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·CUSTER'S LAST RIDE By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 20"h x 16"w OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - FRAMED (outer dimensions 24"h x 20"w) - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON FINE LINEN - See BIGGER FRAMED PICTURE CLICK HERE |
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his
elite 7th Cavalry regiment, under a hail
of arrows, urge their tired horses toward
"Last Stand Hill". Custer spurs
his trusted mount "Vic" forward,
as he fires a round from his British Bulldog
revolver into the surging tide of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
CUSTER'S LAST STAND
It is approximately 4:45 pm on Sunday, June
25, 1876. On the high ground above the Little
Big Horn River is Montana Territory, the
final scene of a drama that has been unfolding
since early that morning is about to be played
out. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong
Custer and some eighty men of Companies C,
E, F, I, and L of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry
are advancing into history as part of "Custer's
Last Ride."
7th CAVALRY MASSACRED BY INDIAN BRAVES
Here, Custer stops to fire towards the advancing
Native Americans whose arrows are already
starting to take their toll. Lieutenant W.W.
Cooke, with his distinctive whiskers, is
in the group to the right of Custer, and
Sergeant Robert Hughes, who is carrying Custer's
personal guidon, follows him. The men remain
fairly calm against the indians, although
one of the guidon bearers has just been hit.
Custer's mount, Vic, is beginning to sense
the fear that will soon overtake the troopers.
The men taking part in "Custer's Last
Ride" were doomed, but they became a
part of one of the most enduring legends
of the West-Custer's Last Stand.
With thanks to James Schneider and Will Leary
( Little Big Horn Association )
CUSTER'S LAST RIDE - 25th June, 1876 - Battle
of the Little Big Horn, Montana, USA
Wild West Military History Giclee Art Print
By Mark Churms available.
WILD WEST- Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·RIDE TO DESTINY By Mark Churms |
June 25th, 1876, Captain Myles Walter Keogh
rides into action with the 7th Cavalry at
the Battle of The Little Big Horn. His horse,
'Comanche' will be the only survivor of Custer's
Last Stand!
Native American Indians Wipe Out Custer's
Command
On the afternoon of June 25th, 1876, Captain
Myles Walter Keogh forms his troopers along
a ridge overlooking the Little Bighorn River
in the Montana Territory. Earlier in the
day, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong
Custer had given Keogh, as senior captain,
command of three of the five companies of
soldiers of his Seventh Cavalry. These men
would ride into destiny at the Battle of
the Little Bighorn. In columns of four, Keogh's
own"I"Company leads companies "C"
and "L" past their expatriate Irish
commander, who prepares to establish a line
of defense against the hundreds of Sioux
and Cheyenne warriors streaming up from the
village to his left.
Sioux and Cheyenne Warriors, Victorious!
In a matter of minutes, overwhelming numbers
of Indians would overrun Keogh's command,
routing the troopers and killing them in
place. Keogh's warhorse, Comanche, was severely
wounded and left for dead.
After the battle, soldiers from General Alfred
Terry's Montana Column arrived on the battlefield
and discovered Comanche still alive. The
animal was nursed back to health and proclaimed
by special orders of the Seventh Cavalry
as the very embodiment "Of the desperate
struggle against overwhelming odds, of the
hopeless conflict, and heroic manner in which
all went down that day."
With thanks to Kurt Hamilton Cox
RIDE TO DESTINY- 25th June, 1876 - Battle of the Little
Big Horn, Montana, USA
Wild West Military History Giclee Art Print
By Mark Churms available.
W.W.I - Classic Art from MarkChurms.com
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·THE COURAGEOUS TWELVE By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 16" x 20" OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - FRAMED (outer dimensions 19.25" x 23.5") - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON FINE LINEN - See BIGGER FRAMED PICTURE Click Here - See CLOSE-UP DETAIL Click Here ( please be patient this large picture may take a moment to open) if you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact us - click here |
World War I, U.S. Army soldiers on the offensive,
overrun German Infantry machinegun positions
as they advance through the tangle of the
Argonne Forrest. These brave men are from
a dozen states: Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Montana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Washington, Wyoming, and Virginia.
THE COURAGEOUS TWELVE - United States Armed
Forces - France, September 26th, 1918 A.D.
World War One History Art Print by Mark Churms,
published by Cranston fine Arts is also available.
MODERN ERA - Current Military Art from MarkChurms.com
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NEW! ·FREEDOM WARRIOR By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 22" x 14.75" ACRYLIC PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON ARTIST CANVAS - See BIGGER PICTURE Click Here - See CLOSE-UP DETAIL Click Here ( please be patient this large picture may take a moment to open) if you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact us - click here |
March 26th 2003, The US 173rd Airborne Brigade,
flying from their base in Italy, parachuted
1000 paratroopers into Northern Iraq during
operation Iraqi Freedom, this was the largest
combat parachute operation since WWII. Here,
a brave soldier of the Brigade stands with
his rifle at the ready to face insurgents
in the "War on Terror" after the
ousting of Saddam Hussein and the Liberation
of Iraq.
FREEDOM WARRIOR - United States Armed Forces
- Northern Iraq , 2003 A.D.
Sci-Fi - Original Art from MarkChurms.com
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·FUTURE WARS By Mark Churms - THE ORIGINAL 9" x 12" OIL PAINTING FOR YOU TO OWN! - UNFRAMED - UNIQUE ART PIECE - PAINTED ON CANVAS BOARD - See BIGGER PICTURE CLICK HERE - See this image used as part of computer game advertisement campaign CLICK HERE ( please be patient this large picture may take a moment to open) (Commissioned for Computer Game Empire Earth) if you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact us - click here |
Human warrior of 22nd Century points his
blaster and fires at an approaching mechanoid,
determined to destroy him. Is this the way
wars will be fought in the future? Will Science
fiction become Science Fact? Man against
man or man against machines, when 'intelligent'
robots create and build their own society
and fight to eliminate the human virus on
planet earth?
NANO AGE 21000-2200o A.D.
The ongoing technological process of miniaturization
attained its ultimate objective in the Nano
Age. Nanotechnology had its first successes
in the early 21st Century in medical applications.
But subsequent improvements in imaging and
manipulation techniques allowed for the creation
of "nanomachines," with sizes measured
in billionths of a meter. Working in concert,
these amazing machines could theoretically
build anything, atom-by-atom, including copies
of themselves.
Programming the trillions of nanomachines
needed to make a sizable object in a reasonable
amount of time was a major hurdle to overcome.
The solution involved developing a simple
coding system — not unlike DNA — that provided
the instructions on how to make any type
of compound. Larger structures were then
assembled from the compounds. Quantum computers
— the smallest and most powerful computers
yet devised — handled the astronomical amount
of data involved.
Nanomachines were soon being used to build
a wide variety of things. Biological structures
were merged with mechanical structures, creating
cyborgs and other hybrids. The designs for
mechanized military units — already highly
successful — received a host of internal
refinements that made them even more effective.
Researchers developed artificial viruses
that could be used for everything from medical
treatments to mind control. The only restriction
was that objects first had to be described
on an atomic level, which was usually a time-consuming
process.
The other major development of the period
was learning to synthesize "negative
matter," an exotic substance with extraordinary
physical properties. First hypothesized in
the 20th Century, the formulation of the
Theory of Everything in the 21st Century
brought negative matter into clear focus.
Applying the theory allowed humans to do
something previously considered impossible:
travel through time. Nanotechnology provided
the means to magnify a phenomenon known as
the Casimir effect to open a wormhole — a
tunnel through the fabric of space-time.
Once enough negative matter was synthesized
to enlarge and stabilize the wormhole, objects
were able to pass through. As soon as other
technological barriers were overcome (for
example, protecting the fragile human body
from the extreme forces involved and controlling
where the "far end" of the wormhole
appeared) time travel became a reality.
In the Nano Age, humankind gradually gained
mastery over matter and energy, time and
space. Yet despite these achievements and
the virtually limitless possibilities they
presented, life on Earth continued much the
way it had over the previous 500,000 years.
Though a mere speck in the cosmos, Earth
remained the cradle of human civilization.
Text by Rick Goodman designer of Empire Earth Computer Game.
FUTURE WARS ( circa 22000 A.D.)
Science Fiction, Original Oil Painting By
Mark Churms
NEW! MARINE LIFE NATURE SCENES - from MarkChurms.com
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NEW! ·HUMPBACK PARADISE By Mark Churms |
Female Humpback whale and her new baby are
flanked by two adult male suitors as they
cruise along the Maui coastline between Lahaina
and Ka'anapali, not far from the shore of
Maui's beautiful Hawaiian tropical beaches.
Bottlenose dolphins swim ahead of these giant
mammals and playfully jump out of the water.
The island of Lana'i can be seen in the background,
covered in clouds. Pacific Humpback whales
travel great distances from feeding grounds
as far as Alaska, each year to give birth
and to nurture their newborns in the warm
Hawaiian waters. They can be seen from December
through May before they leave with their
young to feed once again.
HUMPBACK PARADISE- 2006AD - Hawaii
pacific ocean marine life, original oil painting
By Mark Churms available.
SOUTHWESTERN LANDSCAPE - from MarkChurms.com
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·MAJESTIC WONDER By Mark Churms |
Beautiful original oil painting of Monument
Valley in Arizona, USA. Distant thunderclouds
roll in from the east as the late afternoon
light illuminates the giant mesas and red
sandstone rock formations.
MAJESTIC WONDER - March 2002 - Monument Valley, U.S.A.
Southwest Landscape, original oil painting
By Mark Churms available.
NEW! FORMAL GARDEN LANDSCAPE - from MarkChurms.com
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·GARDENS OF THE VILLA By Mark Churms |
Beautiful original oil painting of an elegant
formal garden in the South of France, on
the Mediterranean coast. This original oil
painting is very heavily textured and is
painted with palette knifes and brushes in
bright impressionist oil colors.
GARDENS OF THE VILLA- 2005AD - SOUTH OF FRANCE
Floral Landscape, original oil painting By
Mark Churms available.
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