Images

Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), an activist, journalist and Jacobin leader during the French Revolution (1789-1799), oil on canvas by Joseph Boze, 1793. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Charlotte Corday, the future assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in her hometown of Caen, Normandy. Oil on canvas by Tony Robert-Fleury, c. 20th century. Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne.

The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, oil on canvas by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1860. Nantes Museum of Arts.

Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

The famous final portrait of Charlotte Corday, painted in her prison cell hours before her execution by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an officer of the National Guard, in 1793. Current location unknown, but a copy is in Versailles.

Depiction of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, being led out of her cell to the guillotine on 17 July 1793. Standing at the far left is the painter Jean-Jacques Hauer who has just finished his portrait of her. Painting by...

A life-size model of what Noah's Ark may have looked like. From the Ark Encounter theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky, USA.

A 1493 illustration from the Nuremberg chronicles showing the construction of Noah's Ark.

A large silk embroidered wall hanging, worked in long and short silk stitch, with a composite imaginary view of Japan, including shrines, bridges, lakes, forests and flowers, Mount Fuji rising in the distance, within a brocade border. Khalili...

Tokyo Imperial University, 1925.