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The small hut at Steinbach on Lake Attersee in Upper Austria where the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote music in the 1890s. Today the hut is a small museum dedicated to Mahler.

Statue of Arranshah Juansher (Pahlavi) (King Javanshir of Caucasus Albania), 637-669. A copy of the bronze sculpture of Javanshir at the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. The original work is kept at the Hermitage.

The Sasanian province of Adurbadagan and surrounding territories Arran and Armenia.

A detail of an 1892 photograph by E. Bieber of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

An 1836 watercolour and ink portrait by Maria Wodzińska of the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (1810-49). Maria was, for a while in the mid-1830s, engaged to Chopin.(National Museum, Warsaw)

An 1887 oil painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, Chopin Concert. The scene shows the composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) giving a performance to the Polish family Radziwiłłs in 1829.

An 1838 portrait by Auguste Charpentier of the novelist George Sand (the pen name of Aurore Dudevant (1804-76). (Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris)

An illustration of the complexity and dynamics of the Ancient Roman society and social order. Ancient Roman society was structured along the lines of wealth, political privilege, ancestry, citizenship, and freedom (it was also unquestionably...

An 1847 photograph by Louis-Auguste Bisson of the Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-49).

An 1838 portrait by Eugène Delacroix of the Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-49). The portrait is a detail of a painting also featuring Aurore Dudevant (1804-76), better known by her pseudonym George Sand. (Louvre Museum...