Images

Dutch whalers off Spitsbergen, oil on canvas by Abraham Storck, c. 1690. Collectie Het Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, oil on canvas painting by John Collier (1850-1934). Tate, London.

English navigator and explorer Henry Hudson (c. 1570-1611) is best known for his four voyages that took place between 1607 and 1610 in search of a northwest passage to the Far East.

Daedalus constructing the wooden cow which Pasiphaë uses to mate with the Cretan Bull, oil on canvas by Jean Lemaire, 17th century. Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen.

Pasiphaë nursing the infant Minotaur, red-figure kylix from Etruscan Vulci, 4th century BCE. Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus and with Eileithyia looking on. Black-figure amphora, made in Athens, c. 550-525 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

An 1823 oil on canvas portrait by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

A map illustrating the expanding control and organization of Roman rule in Britain between c. 43 and 410 CE. It took about a century between Julius Caesar’s 55 BCE foray across Britannicus Oceanus (known today as the English Channel) and...

An infographic illustrating a typical Roman bathhouse design and elements. The Baths of the Roman Empire were a complex network of public facilities playing a major role in the daily lives of the citizens of the empire. Most Roman baths followed...

A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).