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An 1850 photograph of the German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Johann Anton Völlner, Hamburg

A painting titled Valkyrie's Vigil created by the painter Edward Robert Hughes before 1915. Valkyries were key figures in various Norse sagas that were present in Prose Edda, the Heimskringla and the Njáls Saga. They were maidens whose role...

Painting of Robert Guiscard and Roger Bosso receiving the keys to the city of Palermo. The city fell to Norman armies in January 1072, after nearly six months of siege. Fresco by Guiseppe Patania, Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, 1830.

Robert Y. Hayne (1791-1839), senator from South Carolina and proponent of nullification, engraving by William G. Jackman. New York Public Library.

An 1834 oil on canvas portrait by William Henry Brooke (1772-1860) of the industrialist Robert Owen (1771-1858) who rose from the position of a lowly apprentice to become a great mill owner during the Industrial Revolution. (National Portrait...

A portrait by Nathanial Dance of Robert Clive (1725-1774), Governor General of Bengal and representative of the East India Company. Known as 'Clive of India' for his expansion of EIC interests in the subcontinent, the military commander and...

Robert Guiscard and Count Roger, the oldest and youngest Hauteville brothers of Tancred de Hauteville's second marriage. Often working together, they both played major roles in the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily during the 11th...

Robert Guiscard (c. 1015-1085) is proclaimed Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily by Pope Nicholas II, illustration from the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, 14th century.

A lithographic print of the house where the composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was born in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. The house is today a museum dedicated to the composer.

A print portrait of the Angol-Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691). (Science Museum, London)