David Wilkie, Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch, 1822 How did the bulk of those at home in Britain...
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Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment’s uniform. / Wikimedia Commons Enlightened despotism, also called benevolent...
Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far...
A fragment of a wall painting showing two lovers in bed from the House of L Caecilius...
A painting depicting a debate between Socrates and Aspasia, by Nicolas André Monsiaux, circa 1800. Wikimedia Commons In Athenian...
Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault...