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A c. 1900 oil on canvas self-portrait by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist had a long white beard from middle age onwards, which led to friends in cafés calling "Hail Moses" when he entered...

Portrait depicting Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), French orator, politician and French Revolutionary leader. Pastel on paper by Joseph Boze, 1789. Palace of Versailles.

Etching depicting the famous reply of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau to a representative of the king who had asked deputies of the Estates-General to disperse on 23 June 1789, engraved by Alphonse Lamotte in 1889 after a model...

Codex Alexandrinus, one of the three early Greek manuscripts that preserve both the Old and the New Testaments together, copied in the 5th century. British Library, London.

A map illustrating the rise and spread of Christianity from a small, unorganized sect in the Roman province of Judea, across the urban centers and rural areas of the Roman Empire, through Constantine the Great's 325 Council of Nicaea (which...

A c. 1872 oil on canvas still life, Regatta at Argenteuil, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The artist is now becoming much bolder with his impressionist style and using larger brushstrokes to capture a subject...

An 1866 oil on canvas still life, Jar of Peaches, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The artist has here captured the octagonal glass jar, veined marble top, and the reflection of the peaches. Painted with very...

An 1917 oil on canvas self-portrait by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The artist rarely created self-portraits, this one may have been inspired by his brother Leon's death that year. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

An 1870 oil on canvas, The Beach at Trouville, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Trouville in Normandy was a popular and fashionable resort. The work shows the artist's developing impressionist style and the particles...

An 1869 oil on canvas, La Grenouilère (aka Bathers at La Grenouilière), by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. A popular weekend spot on the Seine, Monet worked here with Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). The floating...