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St. Bartholomew Day Massacre
A 16th-century painting by François Dubois showing the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre of Protestants in August 1572 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland)
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The Sack of Lyon by Calvinists
A c. 1565 painting The Sack of Lyon by Calvinists, which occurred in 1562 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). (Musée d'histoire de Lyon)
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Castle Albrechtsburg
This impressive castle is located in Meißen, a small town close to Dresden, Eastern Germany. In 929, King Heinrich I built a wooden fortification on a rock above the Elbe. This made Meißen the centre of the border region of the same...
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The House of Albrecht Dürer
The Dürer House is the only largely originally preserved Renaissance artists' house in Northern Europe. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) lived and worked here from 1509 to 1528. At the same time, it is a unique testimony to the bourgeois culture...
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Julius Caesar and the Roman Civil War (49 - 45 BCE)
A map illustrating the last years of the Roman Republic and the chronology and landscape of the four-year-long Civil War (49 - 45 BCE) that started with Julius Caesar crossing the river Rubicon into Italy and ended on the plains outside Munda...
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Portrait of Jeanne d’Albret
Portrait of Jeanne d’Albret (Joan III of Navarre, l. 1528-1572), Queen of Navarre and leader of the Huguenots (French Protestants) in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). Painted by the School of François Clouet. (Condé Museum, Château...
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Jeanne d’Albret
A portrait of Jeanne d’Albret (Joan III of Navarre, l. 1528-1572), Queen of Navarre and leader of the Huguenots (French Protestants) in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). Painted by the School of François Clouet. (National Library of...
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Harbour, La Rochelle
The fortified harbour of La Rochelle, France. The port was an important Huguenot centre during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).
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Maximilien Robespierre
Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). Unidentified painter, c. 1790. Housed in the Musée Carnavalet.
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Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot by Renoir
An 1869 oil on canvas still-life, A Vase of Flowers, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Renoir was keenly interested in painting flowers throughout his career and found the exercise relaxing.
