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An 1892 oil on canvas, Parau Api (What's New?), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti. In a letter to his wife, Gauguin wrote: "And these people are called savages!...They sing...

An eye witness paiting of the Siege of the Bastille, by Claude Cholat, c. 1789. In the Musée Carnavalet.

Depiction of Camille Desmoulins' call to arms at the Palais-Royal in the days preceding the Storming of the Bastille. By Pierre-Gabriel Berthault (1802)

French soldiers or militia carry the severed heads of Bernard-René Jordan de Launay (1740-1789) and Jacques de Flesselles (1721-1789) on pikes following the Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789). From an engraving...

Painting depicting the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, specifically of the arrest of the Marquis de Launay, governor of the Bastille, by revolutionaries. Circa 1789-1791...

Depiciton of the Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789. Visible in the center is Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay, the governor of Bastille, who is being arrested by the revolutionaries. Painted by Jean-Pierre...

The medieval Castello Estense (aka Este Castle) in Ferrara, northern Italy. The castle was the seat of the Dukes of Ferrara.

A portrait of Anna d'Este (1537-1607), daughter of Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (l. 1508-1559). (Palace of Versailles)

A portrait of Olympia Fulvia Morata (l. 1526-1555, also given as Olimpia), the Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy.

A detail of a black-figure pottery vase showing Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) carrying the dead body of the hero Sarpedon. Made around 500 BCE in Attica, Greece. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)