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Timur Handing the Crown to Babur
This painting establishes the Mughal Dynasty depicting Timur Lane handing the crown to his grandson Babur who has his own son and heir Humayun also present. Legend has it that as Humayun languished at the doors of death with a toxic fever...
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Victorian Crinoline Cage
A 19th-century crinoline cage worn by women to give their outer dress the desired voluminous silhouette. Steel frame covered in red linen and wool. The crinoline's maximum diameter is 2.35 metres (7.7 ft). Victoria & Albert Museum, London...
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Cleopatra's Nose
In the comic Asterix and Cleopatra (1963), Caesar exclaims, “she is kind, but the spices that easily go up her nose... she is pretty, too, though!” The joke (translated in the English edition as “only her nose is so easily put out of joint”...
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Dancing Tapuias
A 17th-century painting by Albert Eckhout showing dancing Tapuias, an indigenous tribe of Brazil. (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen)
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The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia
The Life of Christ was commissioned by the third Mughal Emperor Akbar (1540-1605) to be translated into Persian. This was part of a larger effort to encourage inter-religious understanding and cooperation. The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia...
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Folio from the Baburnama
Babur (1483-1540) who fled Ferghana in present day Uzbekistan to found the Mughal Empire in 1526, receives Uzbek and Rajput envoys. These envoys are offering their congratulations following Babur's accession to the throne. This is a detached...
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Senate Vote Against Versailles Treaty 1920
A gouache on paper painting titled Senate Vote Against Versailles Treaty 1920 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Henry Cabot Lodge and Albert Cummings at the Senate vote against endorsing...
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Garden of Hesperides
Garden of Hesperides, oil on canvas by Albert Herter, 19th century.
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), the ninth president of the United States, oil on canvas portrait by Albert Gallatin Hoit, 1840.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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French Camp on the Eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805
The French camp on the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1 December 1805. Oil on canvas painting by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, 1808.