Images

A c. 1899 oil on canvas, Water Lily Pond, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The Japanese garden with bridge and lily pond was purpose-built by the artist at his Giverny home, and he spent the...

An 1908 oil on canvas, San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The view was painted looking from Saint Mark's Square. The artist was so enchanted with the light...

An 1872 oil on canvas, Impression, Sunrise, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The work shows Le Havre at sunrise. Critics reacted negatively to the painting, considering it vague and unfinished...

A c. 1884 oil on canvas, Self-portrait in his Atelier, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. One of only three known self-portraits made by the artist. (Musée Marmottan, Paris)

A Very Useful Epistle by Marie Dentière, published in Amberes, 1539.

Fresco of Saint Clare and nuns of her order. Chapel of San Damiano, Assisi.

Image of Richard Hingley, the author of Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain.

Painting depicting Queen Marie Antoinette and her three children. On the far right the Dauphin, Louis Joseph, points to an empty crib where Marie Antoinette's fourth child, Princess Sophie, had to be painted out...

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, painted by Alexander Kucharsky in 1791 or 1792, while she was a virtual prisoner in the Tuileries Palace. Only 36 or 37, Marie Antoinette's hair had been turned white prematurely after...

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, oil on canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, 1775. Palace of Versailles.