Tokyo station at night: Did you mean...?

People celebrating Walpurgis Night in 2012.

Malvolio and the Countess, depicting a famous scene from William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in which the puritanical servant Malvolio is tricked into coming before Lady Olivia cross-gartered and in yellow stockings. Oil on canvas...

The duel scene (Act 3 Scene 4) from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, oil on canvas by William Powell Firth, 1842. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

A depiction of Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night in which the puritanical servant Malvolio tries to quiet down Sir Toby Belch and his fellow revelers. It is in this scene that Sir Toby delivers the famous line: "Dost...

The figure could be an aspect of the goddess Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of sexual love and war, or Ishtar's sister and rival, the goddess Ereshkigal who ruled over the Underworld, or the demoness Lilitu, known in the Bible as Lilith...

The Underground Railroad was a decentralized network of White abolitionists, free Blacks, former slaves, Mexicans, Native Americans, and others opposing slavery in the United States who established secret routes and havens to help slaves...

Edo Castle was a large castle built by the Tokugawa family in 17th-century Japan. It served as their seat of government for more than 260 years. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Edo became the capital of Japan and was renamed Tokyo. Edo...

More than 2,000 years ago, extremely wealthy Romans lived on the sunny shores of the Bay of Naples at Pompeii and in opulent villas nearby, unconcerned about Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), Augustus (r. 27 BCE...

An 1897 oil on canvas, Boulevard Montmartre Night Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Pissarro very rarely painted night scenes, but here he captures Émile Zola's famous description of Paris by...

An 1888 oil on canvas painting, Starry Night over the Rhône, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in September in Arles, southern France. His letters reveal that Vincent had planned for some time to...