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Doğduğu yerdeki geniş çayırları, ağaçları, gökyüzünü ve pastoral yaşantısını yaptığı çalışmalarla ölümsüzleştirip bu bölgenin kendi ismiyle Constable Country olarak anılmasını sağladı.
Wivenhoe Park
Constable bu gökyüzünü oluşturabilmek için günlerce eskizler yapıp, meteorolojik gelişmeleri inceledi.
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John Constable
Kraliyet akademisi'nde öğrencilere gösterilen ana tema tarihsel resimlerdi ama Constable tam bir doğa aşığıydı ve manzara resimleri yaparken kendisini çok daha mutlu hissediyordu.
The Constable, Charles d’Albret, rejected an offer of 6,000 crossbowmen from the citizen militia of Paris. No change in tactics had been introduced, and the only technological development (except for cannon, which played no role in open battle) was heavier plate armor. Intended to give added protection against arrows, it had the effect of increasing fatigue and reducing mobility and play of the sword arm. The terrible worm in his iron cocoon was less terrible than before, and the cocoon itself sometimes lethal; knights occasionally died of heart failure inside it.
D’Eu furiously objected. French knights had not come so far, he said, to be preceded into battle by a miserable peasant militia more accustomed to flee than to fight. The knight’s custom was not to follow, but to lead and to encourage others by his example. “To take up the rear is to dishonor us and expose us to the contempt of all.” Moreover, as Constable, he claimed the front place; anyone ahead of him would do him a mortal insult—an obvious reference to Coucy.
As chief military officer, the Constable outranked the royal princes; an attack upon his person was considered a crime of lèse-majesté. He was responsible for cohesion of the armed forces, and for tactical command when the King did not take the field. With control of recruitment, enrollment, provisioning, and all other arrangements for war, his opportunities for enlarging his fortune were immense. If the King was not engaged, the Constable’s banner flew over captured towns; all booty theoretically belonged to him, except for money and prisoners reserved to the King and for artillery reserved to the Master of Crossbows.