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Boeotian Figurine of Athena
A rare polychromatic terracotta version of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos, which stood in the Parthenon and was a work of Pheidias, of the years 447/6-438 BCE. Perhaps from Vathy, Avlis District, Boeotia. Boeotian workshop...
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Apulian Skyphos in Gnathian Style
Drinking vessel decorated with a female mask, probably a theatrical hetaira mask, and vine leaves, made in the workshops of Apulia in southern Italy, 340-320 BCE. The polychromatic decoration on the black varnish coating of the vase is a...
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Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater
It bears the representation of the god Dionysos, Ariadne and the winged god Eros between two Satyrs; members of Dionysos' troupe. The sacred wedding of Dionysos and Ariadne is portrayed on the krater. It is the 5th century BCE archetype...
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Hernán Cortés by Weiditz
A 16th-century portrait by Christoph Weiditz of the Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés (1485–1547 CE) conqueror of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg)
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Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny
Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572), oil on wood portrait by François Clouet, c. 1565-70.
Saint Louis Art Museum.
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Death of Admiral de Coligny
Death of Admiral de Coligny, illustration of the murder of Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) during the St. Bartholomew's Day Masscacre in the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim, 1887.
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The Last Days of Tenochtitlan
An 1899 painting by William de Leftwich Dodge (1867–1935) depicting the last stand of the Aztecs during the siege of Tenochtitlan by Hernán Cortés in 1521. (Howard Tilton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans)
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Why Rome Fell
Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall or Drift and Change? by Dr. Michael Arnheim, Wiley Blackwell, 2022.
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National Assembly, 5 October 1789
Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789. The National Assembly's president Jean-Joseph Mounier presides over a chatoic hall, with women marchers mingling with Assembly deputies. A man, probably Stanislas Maillard, holds a sign asking...
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Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789
Women's March on Versailles (5-6 October 1789). Outraged by high bread prices and the anti-revolutionary conduct of royal soldiers, a crowd of 7,000 women descended on the palace of Versailles. The king accompanied them back to Paris the...
