Images

Artist's depiction of the ambush of Jumonville's French troops by Washington and Tanacharison, 28 May 1754. In this depiction, Jumonville is shown as having been killed in cold blood. Illustration from La régence et Louis Quinze by Alexandre...

A young George Washington surveys the property of Lord Thomas Fairfax in the Shenandoah Valley in 1748. Illustration from The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 by Charles Moore, 1900.

George Washington and his guide Christopher Gist cross the Alleghany River on a raft in late December 1753; after falling overboard, Washington is saved from drowning by Gist. By Daniel Huntington, 1845.

George Washington (right, on horseback) rallies the British troops at the Battle of the Monongahela (9 July 1755), also known as Braddock's Defeat, during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Originally named Washington the Soldier, oil...

Colonel George Washington in the uniform of the Virginia Regiment, oil on canvas portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1772. Washington and Lee University.

Statue of Saint Paul by Adamo Tadolini, in front of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican.

Late Byzantine icon, egg tempera with gold leaf on wood, c. 1400. The icon shows the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the restoration of images in 843 after the period of Iconoclasm (or Iconomachy), characterized by the controversy between the...

Byzantine medallion with the Virgin from an icon frame, gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné, c. 1100. The medallion was originally one of twelve that once surrounded an icon of the archangel Gabriel. Metropolitan Museum of...

Rock inscription written in Brahmi Script, Gandhara, 5th-7th century. Islamabad Museum, Pakistan.

A Roman stucco medallion depicting two female figures, from Torre de la Cruz/Xauxelles (Villajoyosa), Alicante, Spain, 3rd-4th century. Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Alicante (MARQ), Spain.