The world at war (and peace) in colour: Artist's incredibly detailed handiwork breathes life into 150 years of historical pictures

    Artist Marina Amaral, 21, from Brazil, has transformed black and white photos by giving them colour
    She taught herself the incredible skill and believes she's ‘creating a second perspective’ with the photos
    Ms Amaral researches the story behind every photo that she wants to colour before beginning
    She then colours each photo by hand with Photoshop - and the process can take days to get perfect
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艺术家，Marina Amaral，21岁，来自巴西，匠一些黑白照转成彩图。她自学了这门技术，而且坚信她创造了这些图片的额“第二视角”。在会彩图之前，Amaral女士调查了每一张图片的背景。然后她通过手工P图给这些图片上色。 - 这个过程需费时好几日才能完成。

Taking shelter:  Soldiers from the 36th Armoured Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division at Geich, in Germany, on 11 December 1944, sit beside a tank. The 9th Infantry Division was among the first U.S. combat units to engage in offensive ground operations during World War II[CN]

找掩护：1944年12月11日，德国陆军第九军团36队装甲步兵团士兵，靠坦克坐着。二战时期，德国第九军团和美国第一部队争夺阵地战。

Fighting back: This photo was taken during the Warsaw Uprising - a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi in 1944. August 1 marked the 72th anniversary of the battle
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反击： 这幅图片摄于华沙起义战争， - 二战中波兰家乡军从纳粹手中解放华沙的主要战争。8月1日是该战争的72周年纪念日。

No Man's Land: This retouched picture  - originally from a 1928 film - shows a French soldier falling after being shot one hundred years ago, on February 21, 1916, after the first shots were fired in the battle for the French fortress town of Verdun[CN]

无人生还：润色过后的图片 - 照片取自1928年的电影 - 100年前（1916年2月21日）法国凡尔登城堡保卫战打响第一枪后，一名法国士兵被击中

Hands up: A German soldier is pictured being captured by a Soviet soldier during the Battle of Moscow, on December 1, 1941

Refugees: This pictures shows Germans who were expelled from Poland and walked from Lodz, Poland, to Berlin on December 14, 1945. Huddling in blankets, they are waiting by a railway track hoping to be picked up by a British army train

Historic day: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon took place on 2 June 1953. The vibrant red and gold hues of the ceremony are brought to life in this photo

Self-immolation: In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs

Scrubbing up: New Zealand Soldiers are pictured washing their socks in wooden tubs during World War I. Rows of laundered socks hang on lines in the background. The photograph was taken in Bus-les-artois, 7 May 1918, by Henry Armytage Sanders

'I Have a Dream': Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and activist Mathew Ahmann are pictured in a crowd during the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. in August 1963

The eyes of the army:  The Sopwith Snipe was a British single-seat biplane fighter in the Royal Air Force (RAF). This photo shows the No. 43 Squadron ready for a patrol over the German lines in October 1918

Regal: A fourteen-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, when she was a mere princess, is pictured here sat by the window with her nose in a book

Appeasement: British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain is pictured here on his return from talks with Hitler in Germany, at Heston airfield, London, on September 24, 1938. Chamberlain brought with him a terms of the plan later to be called the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

Equality: Lyndon Johnson is pictured here meeting with civil rights leaders at the White House. In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon signed into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony

Shot and killed: Lee Harvey Oswald was an American sniper who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In this photo, nightclub owner Jack Ruby (in the hat at right) shot and killed Oswald when he was being transferred from the Dallas police station to a nearby jail two days after killing the president

Nazi führer:  Adolf Hitler's blue eyes are shown in this colourised version of one of his many portrait photos

Literary hero: Jack Kerouac, an American novelist and poet, is pictured here in his naval reserve mugshot. In the summer of 1942, Kerouac - after dropping out of Columbia University - signed up for the merchant marine and shipped out aboard the U.S. Army Transport ship Dorchester

Elegant: Jacqueline Lee 'Jackie' Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963

Assassinated: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was born on December 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria. In 1900, Ferdinand gave up his children's rights to the throne in order to marry a lady-in-waiting. In 1914, a Serb nationalist assassinated him. One month later, Austria declared war on Serbia and World War I began

Family photo: Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley are pictured here with their daughter Lisa Marie. Priscilla and Elvis met in November 1959 when Priscilla was just 14 1/2 years old. Elvis formally proposed to Priscilla in December 1966

The Red Baron: Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918) earned widespread fame as a World War I ace fighter pilot. He was credited with 80 kills before being shot down, his legend as the fearsome Red Baron enduring well after his death

Murdered: Nicholas II of Russia was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.  In the spring of 1918, Nicholas and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks

Moderniser: The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.  Lincoln is pictured here in 1863 at the age of 54

Mountaineering: President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir are pictured on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park 1906

In office: The 33rd U.S. president, Harry Truman, assumed office following the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1945. Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to contain communism and led the United States into the Korean War

The Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel was a senior German Army officer during World War II. He was implicated in a plot to overthrow Hitler and in 1944 he took his own life by biting into a cyanide capsule

Portraits: A young John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, is pictured left. He served as the 35th President of the United States. Joseph Goebbels (right) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

Gangster: Alphonse Gabriel 'Al' Capone was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old

Iron Chancellor: Under Otto Von Bismarck, pictured here in 1871, Germany became a modern, unified nation. His grand gold attire is brought to life in this colourised photo

An incredible artist has taken some of the defining historical moments of the past 150 years years and brought them to life in 'colourised' photos.

From a portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria before he was assassinated in 1914, to a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk burning himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon in June 1963, Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has transformed photos from around the world.

The stunning collection of images capture emotive moments from both World Wars, painting a grim picture of what life was like on the front line. 

Ms Amaral has also breathed new life into celebrity photos, such as those of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and royal portraits. In one beautiful photo, a 14-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is pictured sitting by a window reading a book in a colourful pink, blue and white striped dress.

Many of the photos that Ms Amaral has colourised were originally taken in the First and Second World Wars.

A heartbreaking pictures shows German members of the Polish 150 huddling in blankets on a freezing cold railway track after walking from Lodz, Poland, to Berlin on December 14, 1945. Another pictures a French soldier falling in No Man’s Land after being shot one hundred years ago, on February 21, 1916, in the battle for the French fortress town of Verdun.

The 21-year-old artist believes she is ‘creating a second perspective’ with the photos.

‘I started colourising photos a year ago, when I found a few colourisations on the internet by accident,’ Ms Amaral told MailOnline.

‘As I've always been very passionate about history and Photoshop, I started practicing and trying to develop my techniques on that very same day.’

She explained the process involves a lot of research and reading - and every inch is coloured by hand at her computer.

‘I never start to work with a photo without first researching the story behind it. Then, I collect the greatest amount of information that can help me with the colours.

‘I like to say that the process of the colourisation itself is like a traditional painting: many hours of work are required, as well as a lot of study, a lot of patience, and many layers of different colours. Every inch is coloured by hand. There's nothing automatic in the process,’ Ms Amaral said.

Depending on the photo that she’s working with, the process can take a few hours or even a few days. 

She said colourising allows ‘a deep connection to be immediately established between the viewer and the photo, as soon as the colours are in the right places. It's almost like magic’, she said.

Ms Amaral’s photos are now being used by history teachers to show students what historic moments may have looked like.

‘They send me emails saying that their students immediately began to attend classes with higher interest after seeing the images in colour. I truly believe that this is very important educational work, and I feel very happy to be able to contribute in some way,’ she said.

Ms Amaral explained her favourite transformation so far is her colourisation of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, which brings the vibrant red and gold hues from the ceremony to life and really gives a sense of the grand nature of the occasion.