Images

Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (1530), engraving in a bible from Nuremberg, 1736. Protestant Museum of Upper Austria, Rutzenmoos.

Prunksaal (State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was build between 1721-1723. The hall is divided, after the original list of the books, into "war" and "peace"...

An image of a painting titled The Pharisees and the Sadducees Come to Tempt Jesus. Opaque watercolour over graphite on grey wove paper. Created by James Tissot (1836-1902). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

An image of the fresco depicting the Council of Chalcedon that was called in 451. Created by Dionisius (1444-1502) around 1520. Ferapontov Monastery, Ferapontovo, Vologda Oblast, Russia.

A portrait of Nestorius (386-450) who was the Archbishop of Constantinople from 428-431. Engraving. Created by Romeyn de Hoogh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

An image showing the Council of Chalcedon painted by Vasily Surikov in 1876. Oil on Canvas. The Council of Chalcedon was called in 451 by the Roman Emperor Marcian to settle debates that had begun at two earlier meetings in Ephesus (431...

A depiction of Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BCE), the most infamous of the assassins of Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE).

A depiction of Cassius, aka Gaius Cassius Longinus (c. 86 - 42 BCE), one of the infamous assassins of Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), and a member of the Roman Republicans faction called "The Liberators"

A map illustrating the political situation in Ptolemaic Egypt in 240 BCE, during the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, eight decades after the death of Alexander the Great, as the kingdom reached its economic and military height. It also depicts...

Ardashir V of Persis | Ardeshir the Unifier | Ardashir I | اردشیر یکم (l. c. 180-241 CE, r. 224-240 CE) A visual representation of Ardeshir I (the Unifier), founder of the Sasanian Empire (Larger Iran). This representation is largely...