Philip Kaufman's midcareer run of great films, released from the late 1970s through 1990, can be seen as an examination of the varieties of heroism: physical and psychological ("The Right Stuff"), moral and political ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being"), artistic ("Henry & June"), existential ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers").
Before the Zamoyski palace in Warsaw was bombed in the Nazi invasion, the count had hidden its artistic treasures in the cellars.
Mona Lisa's life spanned the most tumultuous chapters in the history of Florence, decades of war, rebellion, invasion, siege -- and of the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen.
The Mongol invasion of the 13th century had depressed Persia's artistic life, only partly restored by the renaissance under the Mongol Il-Khan dynasty (1256 1353).
Somehow, the mid-13th-century Mongol invasion followed by devastation and 200 years of occupation did not stop artistic creation.
The cacophonous collision of the French and Russian national anthems, symbolising Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia in 1812, was, according to the composer, "completely without artistic merit".
But there must be some good reason for the owners to want to do it, for they also have to submit to invasion of their privacy, governmental regulations and the daily traumas inevitable to any artistic enterprise.
Along the way, it involved 276 people — 94 singers, 149 musicians, et al. — and became an endeavor that Isaiah Sheffer, artistic director of Symphony Space, compared at least twice in the course of the day to the invasion of Normandy.
The brilliant artistic development of Vladimir-Suzdal was brought to a sudden end by the mid-13th-century invasions of the Mongols, who conquered all but northwestern Russia and destroyed countless treasures.
He stood for an artistic and moral integrity, and a courage and resilience, which allowed Europe to survive convulsions and invasions much worse than any which now threaten it.
