Images

Arachne or Dialectics painted in 1520 by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese.

Artist's Impression of Mycenaean warriors attacking an enemy city. The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1700-1100 BCE), peaking from the 15th to the 13th century BCE. Created by Amplitude...

A tumi or ceremonial knife made by the Lambayeque civilization (Sican) of northern Peru, 10-11th century. Gold and silver inlaid with turquoise.(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Distribution of Assignats, drawing by E. Béricourt, c. 1793. National Library of France.

Peasant selling his assignats to a money changer, Paris, gouache by Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, c. 1789-1796. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Assignat for 15 sols, issued by Domaines Nationaux, 1793. National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Martyr's Mirror, German edition printed by Ephrata in Pennsylvania in 1784.

A page of the 1554 Codex Tepetlaoztoc showing the collection of gold tribute by Spanish colonial authorities in New Spain (Mexico). (British Museum, London)

An 1892 painting, The Torture of Cuauhtémoc, by Leandro Izaguirre. Cuauhtémoc was the last Aztec ruler and he was tortured by the conquistadors to find out the last deposits of gold in the city of Tenochtitlan. (National Museum of Art, Mexico...

Memorial plaque honoring German Anabaptist Balthasar Hubmaier (l. 1480-1528). Dr. Karl Lueger Platz, Vienna.