Images

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, painted by Alexander Kucharsky in 1791 or 1792, while she was a virtual prisoner in the Tuileries Palace. Only 36 or 37, Marie Antoinette's hair had been turned white prematurely after the failed Flight to Varennes...

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, oil on canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, 1775. Palace of Versailles.

Rus army at the walls of Constantinople, miniature from Radziwiłł Chronicle (aka Königsberg Chronicle) fol 14v, early 13th century. Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Map showing Varangian trade routes. Red: Volga trade route Purple: trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks Orange: Other trade routes of the 8th-11th centuries

Guests from Overseas, oil on canvas painting from the series Beginnings of the Rus by Nicholas Roerich, 1901. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

An 1864 oil on canvas still life, Spring Flowers, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Painted while Monet was studying at Gleyre's Academy in Paris, the work shows his mastery of traditional painting techniques...

An 1867 oil on canvas painting, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. This was a fashionable resort on the northern coast of France near Le Havre. The three bands of terrace, sea, and sky...

An 1869 oil on canvas painting, The Magpie, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The work shows the artist's mastery of capturing the effects of light on nature. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain by Richard Hingley

Statue of Scottish theologian and reformer John Knox (l. c. 1514-1572) in Haddington, East Lothian.