This engraved print, by Philips Galle (1537–1612) and Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), depicts the brutal and ruthless crackdown by King Josiah of Judah (r....
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
Duke Gisulf (or Gisulfo) was a Lombard duke of Benevento who operated with substantial autonomy during the tumultuous reigns of the Lombard kings Cunincpert...
This artwork, created around 1890 by Henry J. Pain and the Richmond Lithography Company, strives to re-create the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in...
Egil Skallagrimsson (10th century Icelandic Viking-poet)
"Time seems long in passing
as I lie alone,
a senile old man
on the downy bed.
My legs are two
frigid widows,
those women
need...
