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An 1887 oil on canvas landscape by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Here the artist is using the pointillist method of building up an image using small dots of colour. Unlike others who used dots, Pissarro...

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, marble bust by Henri-Frédéric Iselin (1825-1905). Palace of Versailles. Photo: Philippe Dessante

Marie-Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey, marquise de Monnier, lover of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, engraving by Jean-Louis Delignon, 1804. MAS Estampes Anciennes, Paris.

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...