Images

Shirin goes to see the wonderful rock-carvings by the sculptor Farhad, her admirer. Illustration from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, Shiraz, Iran, 1509-10. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The ruins of the Zoroastrian fire temple Adur Gushnasp, Takhte-e Soleyman, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

Rostam, Yazdegerd III's general, slain by Sa'd, the son of Vaqqâs the Arab, illustration from the Tarjumah-i Shâhnâmah (Translation of Shahnameh into Turkish, Spencer Coll. Turk. MS. 1), 1616-1620. New York Public Library, Digital...

Shah Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), founder of the Safavid Dynasty of Iran, portrait by Cristofano dell'Altissimo. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

An infographic illustrating the chaos and volatility in the Roman Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century, known as the time of the Barracks Emperors. Also called “Soldier Emperors,” the term was introduced in the 19th century but made...

Portrait of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1730-1800), a Russian field marshal who fought for the Russian Empire. Painting by Charles de Steuben, 1815.

Landing of English troops in Holland on 27 August 1799 to partake in the ill-fated Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland during the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802). Watercolor painting by Dirk Langendijk, 1799. Royal Museums...

A series of silhouettes by Otto Böhler showing various conducting gestures made by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken from: Böhler, Otto (1914) Dr. Otto Böhler's Schattenbilder, Vienna, Austria: Wilhelm Lechner, pp. 20, III

A photograph by Josef Löwy of the Vienna State Opera House, taken around 1898 when the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was its director.

A 1907 photograph by Moritz Nähr of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken in Vienna.