Left: Dish with Peacock Feather Pattern, about 1470–1500, Italian. Tin-glazed earthenware, 2 1/2 × 15 3/8 in. The...
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Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, is the subject of Walter Isaacson’s newest book. Pictured is...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Closed altarpiece. Left to right: before, during, and after restoration. A newly expanded web application provides an...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit: Science Museum,...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Trumbull (1786) / Museum...
The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), by Theodore Gericault / The Louvre, Paris By Dolly Stolze /...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...
Lithograph (1892) depicting artist’s vision of the Salem Witch Trials, by Joseph Baker. / Library of Congress...
The Illustrated London News (August 4, 1917) with highlights from the Hope Heirlooms sale including the Hope...
Is the California Dream still alive and well? Ivan Aleshin/shutterstock.com By Dr. William Deverell / 11.01.2017 Professor of...
Detail of a triumphal arch depicting Praetorian Guards. / Photo by Eric Huybrechts, The Louvre, Creative Commons By...
Martin Luther is “a mirror for our contradictions and struggles, for all the ways our society and...
Depiction of the Swiss confederate flags at the battle of Nancy (1477), by Luzerner Chronik of Diebold Schilling,...
By David Robertson / 10.31.2017 October 31, 2017 is the 500th anniversary of one of the most...
Seated Figure, terracotta, 13th century, Mali, Inland Niger Delta region, Djenné peoples, 25/4 x 29.9 cm (The...
Peter Paul Rubens, three paintings from the 24-picture cycle Rubens painted for the Medici Gallery in the...
Astaroth, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal / archive.org Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal,...
Detail of figures from the Dance Macabre, Meslay-le-Grenet, from late 15th-century France. Ashby Kinch, CC BY By Dr. Ashby...
Telling-tales; a comet above Augsburg in 1618. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Bland / 10.30.2017 Visiting...
Halloween parade in New York. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki By Dr. Regina Hansen / 10.25.2017 Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric...
By Dr. Gary M. Galles / 09.30.2017 Professor of Economics Pepperdine University John Dickinson (1732-1808) was one...
By Dr. Joseph T. Salerno / 10.25.2017 Ludwig von Mises as Social Rationalist For the most part...
The Ptolemaic Geocentric system. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Christopher M. Graney / 09.21.2016 Professor of Physics...