Images

Benedictine monastery at Montserrat, Spain.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), depicted in armour, oil on canvas by an anonymous artist of the French School, 16th century. Palace of Versailles.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1620. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena.

A portrait of the Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés (1485–1547 CE) conqueror of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century CE. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid)

The first page of the manuscript of Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle. Library of Geneva

An 1874 painting by Ricardo Balaca showing the arrival back in Spain of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506 CE) in 1493 after his voyage to the New World.

A 1532 portrait by Jakob Seisenegger of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1519-56) with his dog. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Portrait of John Locke (1632-1704), oil on canvas by Godfrey Kneller, 1697. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

The Thracian landscape in Rhodope in the early spring. The name of the region emerged from Rhodope, a Thracian naiad and daughter of the river Strymon. The naiads, daughters of the river gods Potamoi, were water nymphs who lived in lakes...

The seaside of Golden Beach at Thasos, Greece. Ancient myth describes the well-known Thasian wine. It was said that Staphylus, the son of Dionysus and Ariadne, lived in Thasos, hence the Thasian wine was so distinguished.