Oddly there is a crescent moon at the top left and a sparkling sun at the upper right.
A mosaic of this event was found in Pompeii in the House of the Faun and modeled on an earlier Greek painting by Philoxenus of Eretria. Jan Bruegel's depiction of the same subject was painted in 1602 and is in the Louvre, but the most famous remains the one commissioned by Duke William IV. Oddly there is a crescent moon at the top left and a sparkling sun at the upper right. More suspicious are the presence of a group of women on the left, the excessive size of Cyprus, and the presence of mountain ranges in particular the large mountain at the center of this painting. The historian Aventinus provided the numbers and information, later rewritten in Latin, that appear in the tablet hanging from the sky at the top, as well as the information on the banners of the two principal forces. For 10 points, this is what depiction of a victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III in 333 BC by Albrecht Altdorfer?
A mosaic of this event was found in Pompeii in the House of the Faun and modeled on an earlier Greek painting by Philoxenus of Eretria.
The Battle of Alexander at Issus (or Alexanderschlacht)