Today I discovered Google Art Project and I think I’m hooked.  Forgive me if the blog veers in that direction from now on, BUT, never fear for my focus will be on military and war art and artifacts.  Today’s selection of items in my Google art gallery found here is as follows (pictures shown are not the items at the museum, they are inserted for curiosity's sake):

From the Museo Arqueologico de Alicante MARQ located in Alicante, Spain:

A Bronze Age halberd head

A 4^th century BC pre-Roman Iberian sword known as a falcata

Late Bronze Age axe mould

3^rd century BC Iberian jug with scene of two horsemen facing off

3-2 century BC ex-voto man with spear

And from the Art Gallery of South Australia located in Adelaide, Australia:

Black and white sketch of the Chinese 1828 Battle of the River Honbasi though a color sketch is also out there 

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The Landing of the Sailor Prince at Spithead

Scene from Greek history with soldiers

Temple Guardian statue with weapons

Captain Cook portrait

Famed Australian entertainer Bungaree with military uniform

1509 sketch of a medieval tournament

Scene of a medieval tournament

Temple guardian statues in fighting poses

Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, first to circumnavigate Australia

Painting of Tasmanian aboriginal with spear

Portrait of George Villiers, 1^st Duke of Buckingham, an unsuccessful military commander

Army sketch of hospital scene 1941

Portrait of Japanese hero from the Sengoku period, Age of the Country at War, from 15^th to 17^th C

1605 battle scene sketch

Painting of East Java tale of Panji with soldiers shown

Painting of Tasmanian Aboriginal with club

Painting of Kenilworth Castle, founded in the 1120s as a Norman Great Tower

Photo of Kenilworth Castle

Castle sketch

Painting of HMS Foudroyant, 80 gun third rate of the Royal Navy, and Pegase entering Portsmouth

1587 sketch of a military standard bearer

Japanese 1861 sketch of European sailor and Naval officer

Portrait of Dara Shikoh, a 17^th C Persian leader and military commander

Painting of the WW I battle of Villers-Bretonneux

Sculpture of Hindu god with weapon

Portrait of Major O’Shea of the Loyal Cork Legion

Painting of kabuki actors playing samurai

Painting of the 1894 Battle of Lushunkou of the First Sino-Japanese War

16^th C plate depicting a naval battle

c1475 painting of St Martin of Tours, an ex Roman soldier

Picture of St Martin from old Swiss currency

Portrait of Aboriginal man with boomerang

c1829 painting of Alnwick Castle, built in 1096 and involved in some warfare

c1646 painting of a cavalry battle

1848 painting of salving of a wreck, appears to be a naval ship

c1930s transitional shield

17thc Royal keris blade and sheath

Sumatra Keris

c1540s portrait of King Henry VIII

c1853 portrait of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, army officer and explorer

Painting of a group of Tasmanian natives

Painting of an aboriginal encampment

C1798 painting of castle ruins

18^th-19thC knives with scabbards

1815 painting of Chepstow Castle, the oldest post-Roman stone fortification in Britain begun in 1067