Thread on the Art of Joan Francesc Oliveras

Joan Oliveras is a Spanish digital artist who creates gorgeous detailed designs of cultures & characters from antiquity. He paints cultures from all over the world, including the Scythians, Greeks, Persians, Celts, Indians, Mayans, etc

Here is a design he did of Satraces, a Scythian king with a Scythian warrior by his side. In this image, Satraces is preparing to fight Alexander the Great in the Battle of Jaxartes, in 329 BC.
On the right is a Scythian chieftain.

Here is the Spartan King Agis III, who led a failed rebellion against Alexander the Great in 331 BC.

On the left shows Brennus, the Leader of the Celtic Invasion of Greece in 279 BC after the death of Alexander.

On the right is a “Gaulish Naked Fanatic” from the same time period.

Here are four images:
- Alexander the Great
- Roxana’s father Oxyartes, bringing Roxana to Alexander to marry
- Alexander as the Pharaoh of Egypt
- Aristotle teaching Alexander

Here are some Persians from the time of Alexander:
- King Darius III
- a Persian officer
- a Persian cataphract (heavy cavalry)
- Stateira II, the daughter of King Darius III & the 2nd wife of Alexander

Some Ancient Indians from the time of Alexander:
- King Porus of Pauravas riding an elephant
- King Ambhi of the Punjab
- an Indian archer
- Dandamis the Gymnosophist (meaning “naked philosopher”)

On the left, Pyrrhus of Epirus, the second cousin of Alexander who fought Carthage & Early Rome in war.

On the right, a Carthaginian officer with a Libyan mercenary.

Some Vikings:
- Gunrod Eriksson the Sea-King, who led raids in Normandy, France, the caliphate in Spain & the Christian kingdoms of Spain in the 10th century AD
- Gunrod again
- a Viking Berserker
- Erik the Red, the 1st European to reach Greenland & the father of Leif Erikson

More Vikings:
- Rusla, the Red Maiden, a 10th century Norwegian shieldmaiden who raided Ireland, Britain, Denmark & Iceland
- Harald Fairhair, the first King of Norway
- Queen Gunnhild, the wife of Erik Bloodaxe
- a Rus Viking wearing a Byzantine cross

- a Mayan King from the Classical Period
- a “Skræling”, what Leif Erikson & his Vikings called the Native Americans of Canada
- Prince Sviatoslav of Kievan Rus in the 10th century AD
- the Pecheneg Khan Kurya drinking wine from Prince Sviatoslav’s skull...

Finally a few more designs of the 10th century AD:
- Emperor Basil II of the Byzantine Empire
- King Lothar I, the Carolingian King of the western Franks
- a Carolingian infantryman
- an Andalusian infantryman