approximately 200 pictures depicting Japan's military campaigns were created. These pictures were presented at large-scale exhibitions during the war years; After the end of World War II, Americans took possession of Japanese artwork. There are some who may choose not to create war art. During the course of World War II, the Italians created virtually no art which documented the conflict. The French began to paint the war only after the war was ended in 1945. Classical examples Examples of classical war art include the friezes of warriors at the Temple of Aphaia in Greece or the Bayeux Tapestry, is a linear panoramic narrative of the events surrounding the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Gallery Cavalry Offering a drink of water to a fallen soldier River crossings Propaganda See also War artists American official war artists Australian official war artists British official war artists Canadian official war artists German official war artists Japanese official war artists New Zealander official war artists Heraldry The Horse in Art Militaria War photography War rugs, a recent tradition of Afghanistan Notes References Baker, Darrell (2008). The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I – Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC. Stacey International. DP Becker in KL Spangeberg (ed), Six Centuries of Master Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1993. Brandon, Laura. (2008). Art and War. New York: I.B. Tauris. ; OCLC 225345535 Carrier, Peter. Holocaust monuments and national memory cultures in France and Germany since 1989: the origins and political function of the Vél' d'Hiv' in Paris and the Holocaust Monument in Berlin, Berghahn Books, 2006, , 9781845452957 Foss, Brian. (2006). War Paint: Art, War, State, and Identity in Britain, 1939–45. New Haven: Yale University Press. ; OCLC 166478725 Gough, Paul. (2010). A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War. Bristol: Sansom & Co. ; OCLC 559763485 Hartt, Frederick, History of Italian Renaissance Art, (2nd edn.)1987, Thames & Hudson (US Harry N Abrams), Hichberger, J.W.M. (1991). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art, 1815–1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ; OCLC 232947212 Holmes, Richard. (2003). The Oxford Companion to Military History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ; OCLC 231975512 Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 1st edn. 1982 & many later editions, Macmillan, London, page refs to 1984 Macmillan 1st edn. paperback. James, Pearl. Picture this: World War I posters and visual culture, 2010, University of