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Facial reconstruction of the Ptolemaic Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE). This artistic representation of Cleopatra is primarily based on a bust from the Berlin Altes Museum, widely agreed to depict Cleopatra. In addition to the...

Memorial of Quintius Sulpicius Maximus, an 11-year-old who won a poetry contest in 95 CE. Porta Salaria, Rome, Italy.

A teacher with three discipuli, relief found in Neumagen near Trier, c. 180-185 CE. Photo of casting in Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

A likely depiction of Pauline Léon (1768-1838), co-founder of the Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women during the French Revolution. Image by Émile Wattier from Augustin Challamel Histoire-musée de la république Française, depuis...

Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), writer and political theorist, portrait by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, 1813. Palace of Versailles.

Women played a significant role in the French Revolution, exemplified in the Women's March on Versailles, on 5-6 October 1789. Image from the book Stories of the French Revolution by Walter Montgomery, 1893. Library of Congress Digital...

A meeting of a club of patriotic women in a church during the French Revolution (1789-1799). Alongside the more famous political clubs of the era (i.e. the Jacobins, Cordeliers), some clubs were created to advocate for women's rights, most...

Théroigne de Méricourt (1762-1817), the "Amazon of the French Revolution". Engraving by Auguste Raffet, c. 1817

Apollo with the Hours, oil on canvas by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847), c. 1822. Güstrow City Museum.

Allegory of Peace, an allegory of the peace and happiness of the state; depicted are Dike (justice), Eunomia (order), and in the centre, Eirene (peace), oil on canvas by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, Barcelona...