Images

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.

A c.1584 map of the Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic. The islands were uninhabited before they were colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century.

An 1850 painting of the Madeira landscape by Karl Briullov. The scene shows the transport of barrels of Madeira wine on the Portuguese island. (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)

A glass of Madeira wine, produced on the Portuguese island of Madeira since the 15th century.

A levada or aqueduct on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Levadas were built by Portuguese colonists to improve irrigation of plantations of wheat and sugar cane from the late 15th century onwards.

A map showing the location of the Madeira archipelago in the North Atlantic. Uninhabited but colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century, the islands are now an autonomous region of Portugal.

Socrates visiting Aspasia, painting by Nicolas André Monsiaux, 1801. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

The musicians of RMS Titanic who played right until the ship sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on 15 April 1912. None of the band survived the disaster.

Map of the Carolingian Empire following its division in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun. At the death of Emperor Louis the Pious (r. 813-840), the Kingdom of the Franks was partitioned and allocated to three of his four sons. West Francia (orange...

Map of the former Carolingian Empire in 898 following its collapse in 887 as a result of the deposition of Emperor Charles the Fat (r. 876-887). The kingdoms were claimed by various regional nobles, each of whom contested the imperial title...