Dinesh's photos with the keyword: John Buckler

This contemporary drawing shows Ottoman officials rounding up male Christian children in the Balkans. The children became part of a special slave corps, which served the sultan for life as soldiers and administrators. The slave tax and the slave corps were of great importance to the Ottoman Turks in the struggle with Austria (The British Library)

Poussin: The Rape of the Sabine Women Considered the greatest French painter of the seventeenth century. Poussin in his dramatic work (ca 1636) shows his complete devotion to the ideals of classicism. the heroic figures are superb physical specimens, but hardly life-like (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1946)