Images

A 1615 illustration showing the members of the audiencia of Lima, Peru. The audiencia was an important element of local government, justice, and commerce in the major cities of the Spanish empire. (Royal Library, Copenhagen)

Title page of the Life of Ignatius of Loyola, print by Cornelis Galle, Antwerpen, 1610. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait of Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French playwright and author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. Painting by Alexander Kucharsky, c. 18th century. Private Collection.

A representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, oil on canvas by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, c. 1789. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

The Preaching of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, oil on canvas Thomas van Apshoven, c. 1665.

Benedictine monastery at Montserrat, Spain.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), depicted in armour, oil on canvas by an anonymous artist of the French School, 16th century. Palace of Versailles.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1620. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena.

A portrait of the Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés (1485–1547 CE) conqueror of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century CE. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid)

The first page of the manuscript of Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle. Library of Geneva