By Dr. Richard Aspin / 08.08.2016 Head of Research Wellcome Library Locally harvested wild herbs were the foundation of...
Literature
Detail from Thomas Patch’s etching Laurence Sterne, alias Tristram Shandy: “And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door”(1769)...
The significance of performance in actualization, transmission, and composition. Audience and occasion. Implications for the study of...
D’Israeli as he appears in the frontispiece to Vol.I of the 1880 Armstrong and Son edition of Curiosities...
The 1695 frontispiece to the manuscript pages which, in 1697, were to become the first edition of...
A family visiting the Getty Villa explores ancient art, history, and mythology through frescoes from the ancient...
The last two centuries have seen a titanic struggle between secular and ecclesiastical powers for control of...
By Dr. Paul Hoftijzer / 11.23.2015 Senior University Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Universiteit Leiden...
Mugshot of Emma Goldman taken in Chicago, on 10 September, 1901 after she was arrested on suspicion...
The wife and daughters of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine By Dr. Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD / 02.12.2018 Chancellor’s Professor...
Sandra Marquez as Clytemnestra and Stephanie Andrea Barron as Iphigenia in the Court Theater production of Euripides’s Iphigenia...
Johannes de Fontana, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (1420), BSB Cod.icon. 242, f. 59v Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century...
Domenico di Michelino, Dante holding the Divine Comedy, 1465 (Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence) By Matthew Collins /...
Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau / Photograph by Maria Lewis A living historian’s peculiar communion at...
Combined image of Beer Street and Gin Lane, by William Hogarth / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler / 06.28.2012...
Photograph Joyce had made in Zurich, 1915, and sent to Michael Healy, Nora’s uncle. Source: Beinecke Rare...
Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy. Terracotta, 63 in. high...
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor...
A teenage Beatrix Potter with her pet mouse Xarifa, 1885, from Cotsen Children’s Library, Department of Rare...
Pearl Curran in 1919 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have...
By Dr. Bruce Chadwick / 01.05.2018 Lecturer in History and Film Rutgers University “Poe foresaw the darkness...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center for Hellenic...
Coloured aquatint, ca. 1862, depicting a man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy...
Detail from John Leech’s illustration “Tarquinius Superbus makes himself king” featured in The Comic History of Rome – Internet Archive...
Ossian’s Cave front door at The Hermitage, Scotland / Photo by Roger Griffith, Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Modern rendering of a tree fairy By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
The Merchant Georg Gisze (1532) by Hans Holbein the Younger Jonathan Lamb explores the genre of ‘it-narratives’...
‘ Frontispiece to the 6th edition of Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (published under the pseudonym Democritus Junior)...
Self-portait taken by Dodgson, circa 1895 – Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland remains...
Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the Gates of Troy. (From a panoramic fresco on the upper level...