Young man playing the piano: Did you mean...?

An 1875 oil on canvas, Young Man at His Window, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Here a man watches a lady walking in the street below. Once again, the artist combines a sense of depth in the scene with strict...

A bust of Roman emperor Commodus (r. 180-193 CE) as a young man. From Ostia. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Photograph of J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) as a young man, probably around the time of his West Point graduation, circa 1854.

A 1918 photograph of the composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) sitting at the piano. Bain News Service. (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)

A c. 1907 photograph taken by E. Bieber of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) at the piano. (Bergen Public Library, Norway)

A c. 1936 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) at his piano at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

William Penn at age 22, oil on canvas portrait by Peter Lely, 1666.

In ancient Greece and Rome, bronze and marble statues adorned public palaces and the sanctuaries of gods. Over centuries, almost all the bronze statues were melted down for re-use. This is one of the very few surviving examples from Egypt...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian composer best known for his song-cycles and his grand, sweeping symphonies, which often require expanded orchestras for their full performance. Mahler, a composer of Late-Romantic music and...

The Brave Who Went on the Warpath Alone and Won the Name of the Lone Warrior is a Sioux tale in the tradition of the hero's journey in which a young person overcomes seemingly impossible challenges and is recognized as a great champion and...