Images

In the aftermath of the Coup of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte convenes a meeting of 25 deputies from each of the two councils of the French Directory, to finalize the abolition of the Constitution of Year III and to form the French Consulate...

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as First Consul of France, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Curtius Museum, Liège.

The memorial containing the ashes of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in the grounds of his home, Troldhaugen, by Lake Nordås, Bergen, Norway.

A photograph taken by Hansen Weller of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), taken c. 1870 when he was in Copenhagen. (Bergen Public Library, Norway)

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

The Palace of Shaki Khans, built in 1797 by Muhammed Hasan Khan, in Shaki, Azerbaijan.

Interior of the Palace of Sardar, the former residence of Sardar, the ruler of the Erivan Khanate, image from Armenia, travels and studies, by H. F. B. Lynch, Longmas, Green, and Co., volume 1, 1901. pp. 216-217.

The grave of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97) in the central cemetery of Vienna, Austria.

An 1857 photograph taken by Franz Hanfstaengl of Clara Schumann (1819-96), a piano virtuoso and wife of the composer Robert Schumann (1810-56).

The Palace of the Shirvanshahs, built in the 15th century and located in the Inner City of Baku, Azerbaijan.