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The Autobiography of Saint Ignatius is the story of the life of Ignatius of Loyola (l. 1491-1556) dictated by him to the Jesuit priest Father Louis Gonzalez between 1553-1555, shortly before Loyola's death in 1556. It is an account of his...

George Gemistos Plethon, painting by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-1461 CE. Palazzo Medici, Florence. George Gemistos Plethon was a leading philosophic thinker of his day. He moved to Mystras around 1407 CE, where he could more freely express...

"Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon", painted 1851 CE by Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1885 CE). The painting depicts George Washington (1732–1799 CE) on his Mount Vernon plantation. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The Chandos Portrait of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Painted c. 1720. Once attributed to James Thornhill. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

George Washington as commander of the Continental Army, 1776. That year, which saw the defeat of Washington's army at the Battle of Long Island and in the subsequent New York Campaign of 1776 was the bleakest year of Washington's military...

A young George Washington in his first career as a land surveyor, c. 1750. Painting by Henry Hintermeister, January 1948.

The tomb marker of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) in Westminster Abbey. The year of birth is here incorrect.

Bear Dance, hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin, 1844. Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, USA.

A 1706 portrait by Charles Bolt of Anne, Queen of Britain (r. 1702-1714) and her husband Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708). Royal Collection.

Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree, showing George Washington as a young with his father Augustine 'Gus' Washington (1694-1743), a Virginian planter, engraving by John C. McRae after a painting by G.G. White, c. 1867. Library of...