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Tomb of Saint Columbanus, Bobbio
Tomb of Saint Columbanus (543-615 CE), in Bobbio Abbey, Italy.
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James Francis Edward Stuart
A c. 1720 portrait of James II of England’s exiled son James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), also known as the Old Pretender since he claimed the crown of Great Britain which had since passed on to the House of Hanover and George I of...
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United States Expansion after the Treaty of Paris in 1783
A map illustrating the expansion of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris (September 3, 1783), which ended the War of the American Revolution, recognized U.S. independence, and granted it sizeable additional territory...
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George I of Great Britain by Kneller
A c. 1714 painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Godfrey Kneller. (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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George I of Great Britain by Lafontaine
A 1720s painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine. (Royal Collection, UK)
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Medea about to Murder Her Children
Medea about to Murder Her Children, oil on canvas by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix. 1862.
Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Jason and Medea
Jason and Medea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1907.
Private collection.
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Medea on Her Chariot
Medea flying on her chariot, red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel), South Italian, Lucanian, c. 400 BCE.
Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Ancient Mesopotamia from Cities to Empires
A visual timeline illustrating the development of what most consider the “cradle of civilization” - Mesopotamia (meaning “the land between two rivers,” the Tigris and Euphrates) from the emergence of small tribal settlements in the Stone...
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The Jugdulluk Pass
An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Jugdulluk Pass. The pass had to be negotiated during the notorious retreat from Kabul in 1842 by the East India Company army. (British Library, London)
