The Visit - Vintage
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
The Visit - Vintage
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The visit. Vintage version.
A black redstart visits the grave of a French veteran of the Great War who fell in the battle of Verdun, in the cemetery of the Douaumont Ossuary.
During the 300 days of the Battle of Verdun over a battlefield that covered less than 7.7 square miles, approximately 230,000 men died. The battle became known for Germans and French alike as the Hell of Verdun.
The Douaumont Ossuary (L'ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial building formed in the shape of an inverted T, with a long cloister and a tower in the middle. The cloister holds the remains of at least 130,000 unidentified French and German soldiers who died during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. It is located in Douaumont, within the Verdun battlefield. It has been designated a "n�cropole nationale", or "national cemetery".
In front of the monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War with 16,142 graves.
The tower is 46 meters high and has a panoramic view of the battlefields. It contains a bronze death-bell of 2 metric tons called Bourdon de la Victoire, which is sounded at official ceremonies. It was offered by an American benefactor. At the top of the tower is a rotating red and white "lantern of the dead", which shines on the battlefields at night. The cloister is 137 meters long and contains 42 interior alcoves.
More images of WWI one copy-paste away at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/the+great+war
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November 1st, 2016
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