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The Hussite Wars (1419 to c. 1434) were a series of conflicts fought in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) between followers of the reformer Jan Hus and Catholic loyalists toward the end of the Bohemian Reformation (c. 1380 to c...

In this gallery, we showcase 30 paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), the Dutch post-impressionist painter whose use of form and colour changed the world of art forever. The selection here is presented...

Portrait of Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415), pen and brown ink drawing by Christoffel van Sichem I, mid-16th to early 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Matej Hádek as Czech theologian and reformer Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415) being burned at stake for his critique of the medieval Church, in the movie titled Jan Hus (2015). Image by Czech Television. © Ä?eská televize...

Matej Hádek as Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415) in the movie Jan Hus (2015) by Czech Television. © Ä?eská televize - Yan Renelt, Pacholíkova 443/2, 143 00 Praha 4

The Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933 was a possible arson attack on the German parliament building. The fire was blamed on a communist anarchist Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934), but it may have been the work of the Nazi party's...

A 19th century CE painting by Jan Matejko of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE), the Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system.

Trial of a Chech reformer and theologian Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415) who tried the Council of Constance and burnt at the stake. Oil on canvas painting by Vaclav Brozik, 1883. Old Town Hall, Prague.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629), an officer of the Dutch East India Company and twice the company's Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies, oil on wood portrait after Jacob Waben, 1629...

A 16th-century portrait of the Bohemian general Jan Zizka (l. c. 1360 – 1424), a prominent participant in the Hussite Wars (1419-c. 1434). (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)