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An unknown 18th-century artist created this painting of Saint Eligius, an altruistic artisan and bishop who lived during the time of the Merovingian Frankish...

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Abduction Of The Sabine Women, By An Unknown 16th Or 17th Century Artist

This rather damaged painting by an unknown 16th or 17th century artist re-creates an infamous legend from the history of ancient Rome. Specifically, it...

A Sibyl, By Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)

This photograph was taken by the affluent British photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Known for portraits of celebrity friends like Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth...

The Battle of Zama, By An Unknown 16th-century Artist

This curious painting was created by an unidentified 16th-century artist from the Netherlands. The anonymous artist either copied this scene from a work by...

The Death of Britannicus, by Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol (c. 1785–1861)

This illustration, by the French artist Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol (c. 1785–1861), was inspired by the ancient story of the assassination of Emperor...

The Unlucky Victory Pilgrimage Of Archbishop Ælfsige of Canterbury

  A clergyman named Ælfsige succeeded Archbishop Odo as the leader of the archbishopric of Canterbury around 958 in Anglo-Saxon England. For a medieval man-of-the-cloth,...

Alfred the Great

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