Italy surrendered in September 1943 and split in a northern Germany-occupied puppet state and in an Allies-friendly state in the South; Germany surrendered in May 1945.
Three days later, Marshal Philippe Pétain surrendered to the Germans. The debacle in France also led to one of the war's greatest mysteries, and Hitler's first great blunder, Dunkirk, ...
France was now on the verge of bankruptcy, in spite of the aristocracy's agreement to surrender its immunity from taxation.
He painted landscapes, historical pictures, like the Surrender of Breda and ancient subjects like Los Borrachos and Smithy of Vulcan, Mars and Venus.
In Spanish painting, and within the Andalusian school to which he also belonged, Murillo represents the height of elegance and delicacy, and, it must be added, the greatest surrender to popular sentiment.
He, too, wanted to surrender to his impressions, to paint the forms and colours he saw, not those he knew about or had learned about. But he felt uneasy about the direction painting had taken.
We cease to identify ourselves with Nature, with the Divine, or with the Seer, and surrender ourselves to their deeper unseen unity.
Artists used spontaneous techniques based on the "free association" concept, also called automatism, in which conscious control was surrendered to the unconscious mind. .
Pans fell after a bitter tour-month siege, and France was forced to surrender Alsace and Lorraine. With peace negotiations under way. Bismarck managed to persuade the southern German states to join with Prussia in a new union.
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (Detail of surrendered women)
c. 1850
Pieta ...
The satiny texture of her dress, unadorned by jewelry as Madame David surrendered hers in support of the revolution, is created with heavy brushes of thick pigment, the plume with lighter strokes of thinner color.
Austria-Hungary had to reduce her army at once to a peace footing - only 20 divisions were excepted; to evacuate all enemy territories still occupied by her troops; to surrender to the enemy large portions of Austrian territory, ...
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