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Small Baths, Hadrian's Villa
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Small Baths, Hadrian's Villa

The Small Baths at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) is a thermal complex built between 121-125 CE.
Three Exedras Building, Hadrian's Villa
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Three Exedras Building, Hadrian's Villa

View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the...
Stadium Garden, Hadrian's Villa
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Stadium Garden, Hadrian's Villa

The Stadium Garden at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was an elaborate garden of artistic and aesthetic retreat - effectively, a statue gallery.
Canopus, Hadrian's Villa
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Canopus, Hadrian's Villa

One of the most striking and best preserved parts of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Italy) consists of a pool named Canopus and the so-called Serapeum, a monumental summer cenatio with a nymphaeum set at the southern end of...
Maritime Theatre, Hadrian's  Villa
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Maritime Theatre, Hadrian's Villa

The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a complex with 35 room built on a circular island surrounded by a moat. It is generally thought to have been dedicated to Hadrian’s personal use.
Dining-room of Piazza d’Oro, Hadrian's Villa
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Dining-room of Piazza d’Oro, Hadrian's Villa

The Piazza d’Oro (Golden Hall) is a vast building with a quadriporticus garden and water basins located in the northern edge of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The southern side of Piazza d’Oro has a...
Antonio de Mendoza
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Antonio de Mendoza

Antonio de Mendoza (l. 1495-1552), viceroy of New Spain, oil on canvas painting by an unknown artist. Salón de Virreyes, National Museum of History, Mexico City.
Saint Cuthbert
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Saint Cuthbert

Stained glass window of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634-687), monk and bishop of Lindisfarne, in Newcastle Cathedral.
Charles I Before the Battle of Naseby
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Charles I Before the Battle of Naseby

A 19th-century painting showing Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649) and Prince Rupert before the Battle of Naseby with Parliamentary forces during the English Civil Wars. The battle took place on 14 June 1645...
Saint Cuthbert's Incorrupt Body
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Saint Cuthbert's Incorrupt Body

The discovery of his Saint Cuthbert's incorrupt body in an illuminated manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert, MS 39943, c. 1180. British Library, London.
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