• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    That’s a section from The Ruins of the old Kreuzkirche, Dresden (1765). The church has been destroyed during the Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763). Wikimedia Commons

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        My Lemmy client can’t open it either, as the address ends with .jpg, but opening the link in a browser works fine.

  • @niktemadur
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    121 month ago

    Damn, that’s Bellotto’s best yet in this space, and there’s been more than a few of them, so that’s no faint praise.

  • Azuth
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    31 month ago

    I’m amazed at the sheer devastation of the church and the buildings to its left. I had no idea that level of destruction in war was possible before conventional explosives.

    • @hellofriend
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      1 month ago

      Well, when you hit things really hard with massive iron balls, the things you hit tend to break.