Images

Portrait of József Alvinczi (1735-1810), a commander of the Austrian army who fought Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Arcole and the Battle of Rivoli and was recognized by Bonaparte as his most capable opponent during Napoleon's Italian...

General Napoleon Bonaparte leading the charge over the bridge on the first day of the Battle of Arcole (15 November 1796). Illustration from John Clark Ridpath's Ridpath’s History of the World, 1901.

A map depicting the initial phase of the Arcole campaign, showing the advances of Alvinczi and Davidovich and the Battle of San Michele, the Second Battle of Bassano, and the Battle of Calliano.

The former home in Beverly Hills, California of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943).

An 1892 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) when he was a student (far right) at the Moscow Conservatory. With him are Anton Arensky (1861-1906), seated in the middle, and Lev Conus and Nikita Morozov.

A c. 1936 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) at his piano at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

A c. 1910 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) working on his third piano concerto in his garden at Ivanovka near St. Petersburg.

A map illustrating the rise and evolution of the Sultanate of Delhi during the times of its first ruling dynasty – the Mamluks (also known as the Slave or Ghulam Dynasty), an influential military class of slave soldiers between 1206 and 1290...

A 1923 oil on canvas portrait of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) by Konstantin Andreyevich Somov. (Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

The organ of the New Church in Arnstadt, Germany. This organ was first tested and then played regularly by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), appointed organ master in 1703.