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Hall of the Great Council, Doge's Palace, Venice. The room is 53 meters long and 25 meters wide (173 x 82 ft) and can seat 2,000 people. On the back wall is one of the largest oil paintings on canvas...

A depiction of the Coup of 18 Brumaire; the deputies of the Council of 500 rush to accost Napoleon Bonaparte, who is surrounded by his loyal grenadiers; his brother Lucien Bonaparte stands at the president's...

An 11th century CE illustration of the Seventh Ecumenical Council which decreed the end of iconoclasm in the Byzantine Church, in September 787 CE. Emperor Constantine VI (r. 780-797 CE) is depicted sitting immediately...

The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and...

Map showing the spread of Christianity, showing both strongly Christianized areas before 325 CE and generally Christianized areas until 600 CE. The map also shows major Christian centers and the cities in which...

The Index of Prohibited Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) was a list of written works condemned as heretical or injurious to the Christian faith by the Catholic Church at the Council of...

A modern reconstruction of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. The temple took 120 years to build and was finally completed in 550 BCE. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but was burned to...

The Ephesian Artemis, in the Archaeological Museum of Ephesus. Selçuk, Turkey. 1st Century CE.

The lonely reconstructed column standing on the site of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The Temple of Artemis, also known as the Artemesium, was constructed in the mid 6th century BCE and was considered to be one of...

This is the best preserved of the column drums carved in relief. It shows a youthful winged Thanatos (death), a draped woman, a figure of Hermes Psychopompos (leader of souls to the underworld), a standing...