Images

Perseus defends Andromeda from the monster Cetus by pelting it with stones. Corinthian black-figure amphora from Cerveteri (Italy), 575-550 BCE. Altes Museum, Berlin.

Astronomical chart showing the constellations of Andromeda, Triangula – a variant of Triangulum using stars too small to feature in this star chart to make a second triangle – and the obsolete constellation Gloria Frederici. Hand-colored...

Perseus and Andromeda, oil on canvas by Titian, 1554-1556. The Wallace Collection, London.

Andromède (1869), oil on canvas by Gustave Doré. 256.5 x 172.7 cm (100.9 x 67.9 in). Private collection.

1:10 model reconstructions of Roman ships. 5: Dromon of the Byzantine navy (10-12th centuries CE), left: Bireme of the Neumagen type (220-230 CE) Museum für Antike Schiffahrt, Mainz.

The brother of the King of Babylonia introduces Constantine the African to the court of Robert Guiscard.

An 1893 photograph of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918) playing the piano in the house of Luzancy with his friend Ernest Chausson.

An 1884 portrait by Marcel Baschet of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918). (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

A 1910 photograph taken by Erik Satie of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918) and, seated, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). (Bibliothèque de l'Opéra Garnier, Paris)

The grave of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918). Cimetière de Passy, Paris.