Images

Portrait of Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794), oil on canvas by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, c.18th century. One-time fiance to British writer Edward Gibbon, Suzanne was the wife of France's popular finance minister Jacques Necker and...

The coat of arms of the European Principality Liechtenstein, which features a Harpy.

An illustration of a harpy in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642.

An engraving of the harpies in the Forest of Suicides by Gustave Doré illustrating Canto XIII of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri.

Exercitia Spiritualia by Ignatius of Loyola, engraving by Gilles Rousselet, 1644. Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago.

Allégorie révolutionnaire ("Allegory of the revolution") by Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry, 1794. It was made in honor of Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), whose portrait is seen at the top...

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1824) during his tenure as 1st United States Secretary of State, oil on canvas painting by Charles Willson Peale, 1791. Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

A 1615 illustration showing the members of the audiencia of Lima, Peru. The audiencia was an important element of local government, justice, and commerce in the major cities of the Spanish empire. (Royal Library, Copenhagen)

Title page of the Life of Ignatius of Loyola, print by Cornelis Galle, Antwerpen, 1610. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait of Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French playwright and author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. Painting by Alexander Kucharsky, c. 18th century. Private Collection.