Images

St. Eleonora (c. 1223-1291), oil on canvas by Johann Michael Rottmayr, 1716. National Gallery of Slovenia, Slovenia

Children playing ball games. Marble Roman artwork of the second quarter of the 2nd century CE. Probably a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus. Louvre, Paris.

The signature page of the Olive Branch Petition of 5 July 1775, the last attempt made by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a war with Great Britain. This is a scan of an original photo from the US Library of Congress.

Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) from the Moralized Bible, Illuminated Manuscript, c. 1227-1234 The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, New York

Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), Illuminated Manuscript Unknown Artist, c. 1300-1308. Taken from the Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England. (British Library, London)

Portrait of Patrick Henry (1736-1799), a Virginian statesman and Founding Father of the United States. Oil on canvas by George Bagby Matthews after an original by Thomas Sully, circa 1891. United States Congress Collection, Washington...

Patrick Henry as a young lawyer arguing the Parson's Cause. Oil on canvas by George Cooke, c. 1834. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.

Saint Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), Saint Bridget on an Altar Piece, Hermann Rode, late 15th century. Taken from "The Swedish people through the ages. Our country's cultural history in descriptions and images. The second volume. The medieval...

St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), oil on canvas portrait by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, depicting St. Catherine of Siena wearing a crown of thorns, c. 1746. The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) wife of Henry VI of England (r. 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471). Detail from an illuminated manuscript by Talbot Master, c. 1445. From Presentation of the Book of Romances. (British Library, London)