Images

The Gracchi, sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, 19th century. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Gaius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs, image by Silvestre David Mirys, plate 127 in the Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique, 1799.

Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi brothers, oil on canvas by Umberto Ruini, 1892. Civic Museum of Modena.

Emperor Napoleon I reviews Bavarian and Württemberger troops during the Battle of Abensberg, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition (1809). Painting by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

Austrian grenadiers storm the village of Essling on 22 May, during the Battle of Aspern-Essling. Print by Felician Myrbach, 1906.

Napoleon crossing the bridge to Lobau Island during the War of the Fifth Coalition, 1809, oil paint on wood, by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr, 1912. Tate, London.

Napoleon confers with his officers well into the night after the first day of the Battle of Wagram (5-6 July 1809), oil on canvas by Adolphe Roehn, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, 5 and 6 July 1809. Oil on canvas painting by Horace Vernet, 1836. Palace of Versailles.

An 1888 photograph of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949).

A 1904 photograph of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Taken by Joseph Gaylord Gessford in New York.