Johannes de Fontana, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (1420), BSB Cod.icon. 242, f. 59v Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century...
Month: February 2018
Peirene: General view of the spring facade, with Acrocorinth (the acropolis of ancient Corinth) in the background. Histories...
Bronze Age huts at Craggaunowen / Photo by Angella Streluk, Creative Commons By Dr. Nicholas K. Rauh Professor of...
Initial G: The Assumption of the Virgin, about 1392–1402, Niccolò da Bologna, from the Gradual of Niccolò di...
Domenico di Michelino, Dante holding the Divine Comedy, 1465 (Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence) By Matthew Collins /...
Lenora Cline, 88, in her bed at a nursing home in Whittier, California. Her daughter, Laurel Cline,...
Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? By Dr. Jo Marchant / 06.30.2014 Geneticist It’s...
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Elisa Lazarri / 01.16.2018 Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences Cornell University “Rampant” and “elderly”...
Wellcome Library via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Henning Schmidgen / 08.08.2011 Professor of the Theory of Media...
Etruscan and Massalian amphorae excavated at Lattes, France. Photo: Michael Dietler A look at wine’s integral role in culture and...
African-American family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia in 1907 / Library of Congress By Dr. Keri Leigh...
Left: Yoyogi National Gymnasium; 2nd Gymnasium. Photo courtesy of Japan Sport Council. Right: Stadio Flaminio. Photo: Matteo...
Spider costume designed by Charles Briton for the “Missing Links” theme, Mistick Krewe of Comus, 1873 For...
A map of United Nations member states at the end of 1945. Light blue are member states,...
Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, 1866, Jacques Joseph Tissot. Oil on canvas, 50...
A reconstructed relief panel from the original on the Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 81 CE. The scene, showing...
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Video produced by Dr. Naraelle Hohensee, Dr. Steven Zucker...
Portrait of King George I from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1714 / National Portrait Gallery,...
Writing table, about 1670–75, French. Oak veneered with ivory, blue-painted horn, ebony, rosewood, and amaranth, with drawer...
Terracotta Army detail, Xi’an, China / Photo by Peter Morgan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rolando Minuti /...
By Dr. Kevin Linch / 01.30.2012 Associate Professor of Modern History University of Leeds Introduction Throughout European...
The Sack of Troy: A warrior kills Astyanax, son of Hektor, dealing the final blow to the...
The Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 By Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec / 12.11.2015 Professor of Art History Brooklyn...
People in Downtown Havana / Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art By Jessica Portner / 07.18.2011 Editorial...
One of Julius Shulman’s views of Chichen Itza with a Chac Mool in the foreground. Julius Shulman...
Photo by Fred Boissonnas, Public Domain By Yiannis Antoniou and Vassilis Bogiatzis Antoniou: Hellenic Open University Bogiatzis: National Technical University of...
Voting with psephoi (pebbles) in a scene from the Wine Cup with the Suicide of Ajax (detail), about 490...
Bay of Palermo, Sicily, 1963, Samuel J. Magnolia. Mural painting, about 8 1/2 x 15 ft. Photo...
Plato´s Symposium, by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869 / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, via Wikimedia Commons The practice of reclining to dine...
Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau / Photograph by Maria Lewis A living historian’s peculiar communion at...