Images

Saint Anthony of Padua, oil on canvas by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1640. Museo del Prado, Madrid

Coin of the first Mughal Emperor, Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, as the ruler of Kabul, 1504-1530 CE.

Saint Anthony preaching to the fish, oil on canvas by Paolo Veronese, c. 1580-1585. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

Saint Francis of Assisi, oil on canvas painting by Philip Fruytiers. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

The Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill in Rome was constructed at the time of Pope Celestine I (422-432 CE). It is a major example of the architectural characteristics of an Early Christian basilica. It also preserves its original...

The round church of St. Donatus in Zadar (ancient Iader) in modern-day Croatia was built on top of the ancient Roman forum in the 9th century CE. It was originally dedicated to the Holy Trinity, but in the 15th century, it was renamed to...

The frigidarium (cold room) of the Roman Baths of Odessos (modern-day Varna, Bulgaria). The baths were built around the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century CE under Roman emperor Septimius Severus. They cover over 7000 square...

The Roman Baths of Odessos (modern-day Varna, Bulgaria) were built around the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century CE under Roman emperor Septimius Severus. They cover over 7000 square meters and were the fourth-largest public...

Jemima Cornwallis, wife of British general Lord Charles Cornwallis, Mezzotint by James Watson after an original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1771. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Lord Charles Cornwallis receives two of Tipu Sultan's sons as hostages in the aftermath of the Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-1792), oil on canvas painting by Robert Home, circa 1793. National Army Museum, London.