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The Three Graces by Antonio Canova
The Three Graces, statue by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, commissioned at the behest of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, c. 1813-1816.
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

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Diorama of the Iroquois Planting the Three Sisters
A diorama of "the three sisters" (corn, beans, and squash) on display in A Mohawk Iroquois Village, an exhibit at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA.

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Three Exedras Building, Hadrian's Villa
View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...

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Mapungubwe - Lost Kingdoms of Africa BBC 4
SUBSCRIBE to the OFFICIAL BBC YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn LAUNCH BBC iPlayer to access Live TV and Box Sets: https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ More about this programme: In 1871, European explorers stumbled across an astonishing ruined...

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Map of the First Three Crusades & the 12th-Century Outremer
These maps illustrate the trajectory of the early Crusades (1096–1192), a series of military campaigns launched by the medieval Latin Church with the declared goal of reclaiming the Holy Land—centered between the Mediterranean Sea and the...

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The Three Estates of Pre-revolutionary France
The Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France were the hierarchical social divisions that structured society under the Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime," a term coined after the French Revolution to describe the pre-revolutionary system...

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The Three Graces, Louvre
Marble statue of the Three Graces dancing in a circle. 2nd century CE Roman copy of a Greek statue of the 2nd century BCE with Rennaisance era restorations. Found in the Villa Cornovaglia in Rome. Louvre Museum, Paris.

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1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz
1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen (now Svalbard) is mapped for the first time and indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), centre-left.

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The Book of the Three Virtues
Illustration from Christine de Pizan's The Book of the Three Virtues (1405 CE). Boston Public Library.

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The Three Magi
A Byzantine wall mosaic from Ravenna showing the three Wise Men or Magi (aka the Three Kings) who visited the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. The three figures are traditionally named as Balthazar, Melchior, and Caspar, although they...