Tag: Art of War

Lunch Bite – A Collection of Images Illustrating the Art of War in the 18th Century

Bénédicte Miyamoto, associate professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and a fellow in the Institute’s library, will present highlights of manuscript maps, fortification drawings and artillery diagrams in the Institute’s collections that illustrate the art of the war in the eighteenth century. Military engineers, draftsmen and topographers received artistic training that was used to produce these documents, […]