Detail from an image showing fireworks in Hamburg to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Franz I. Stephan...
Day: June 28, 2018
Henry Morton Stanley as pictured in the frontispiece to Volume 1 of his In Darkest Africa (1890) – Internet Archive...
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy)...
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor of History The Graduate Center City University of...
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. By Dr. Peter Harrison...
Detail of the central embroidery work of a woman’s summer robe, c1875–1900. / Wikimedia Commons In China, as...