Images

Mount Gerizim

German Peasants' War (1525), wall painting by Carolus Vocke, 1965. Herdwangen-Schönach City Hall.

Title page of the Twelve Articles of the German Peasants' War (1525), from page 21 of Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes by Otto Henne am Rhyn, Berlin 1897.

Thomas Müntzer (l. c. 1489-1525), German reformer, portrait signed by Christoffel van Sichem as engraver and editor, between 1570 and 1624. National Library of Spain, Madrid.

Episode from the German Peasants' War, oil on canvas painting by Hermann Eichler, c. 1867. Belvedere, Vienna.

A painting of the British Crown Jewels used before the English Civil Wars (1642-51). These were broken up and sold off following the execution of Charles I of England in 1649.

The frontispiece of the Eikon Basilike (first published in 1649) showing the late King Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649). The king, executed by Parliament during the English Civil Wars (1642-51), is here shown kneeling and holding forth...

Attic vase thought to depict Zephyrus and Hyacinthus, from Tarquinia, c. 480 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Flora and Zephyr, oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguerau, 1875. Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse.

Death mask of Oliver Cromwell who served as Lord Protector of England, Ireland and Scotland (1653-8) after the English Civil Wars (1642-51). (Warwick Castle, England)