Images

The abbey of Monte Casino, illustration by Francesco Cassiano De Silva from Giovanni Battista Pacichelli's Il regno di Napoli in prospettiva, Naples, 1703.

Castle of Melfi, an important Norman stronghold in Southern Italy.

Pope Leo IX (r. 1049-1054), illustration from an illuminated manuscript, 11th century.

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.

Coronation of Roger II, King of Sicily (r. 1130-1154), mosaic in La Martorana, also known as Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (Saint Mary of the Admiral), in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

Gate of the Baku Fortress, Azerbaijan.

The tomb of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) at his former home Ainola in southern Finland.

A 1915 photograph taken by Eric Sundström of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and his wife reading at their home Ainola, north of Helsinki. (Helsinki City Museum)

A 1939 photograph of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).

An oil-on-canvas 1892 portrait by Eero Järnefelt of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). (Finnish National Gallery)