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An imagined conversation between three leaders of the French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (left), Georges Danton (center), and Jean-Paul Marat (right). This painting depicts a scene from Victor Hugo's novel Ninety-Three. Oil on canvas...

Execution of Georges Danton, 5 April 1794. Image by Charles Brabant, 19th century.

The Cordeliers Convent in Paris, France, where the radical political society the Cordeliers Club met during the French Revolution (1789-1799).

Antoinette Gabrielle Charpentier (1762-1793), first wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton (1759-1794). She died in childbirth while Danton was on mission in Belgium. Oil on canvas portrait by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Musée...

A releif showing a quadriga race in the Cricus Maximus, Rome (2-3rd century); Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. The starting gates can be seen on the far left. The upper left-hand corner shows the magistrate who will begin the race by dropping...

Roman terracotta depicting a winning charioteer with victory palm; probably from Alexandria, 2nd/3rd century.

The mosaic of Daedalus, Icarus, and Pasiphaë from Zeugma depicts the wife of King Minos of Crete Pasiphaë (ΦACIΦAH), an unidentified maiden, and her nanny Trophos (TPOΦOC) watching as Daedalus (ΔΕɅɅΟC) and his son Icarus (ΕIKAPOC) make a...

Tomb of Saint Columbanus (543-615 CE), in Bobbio Abbey, Italy.

A c. 1720 portrait of James II of England’s exiled son James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), also known as the Old Pretender since he claimed the crown of Great Britain which had since passed on to the House of Hanover and George I of...

This map illustrates the expansion of the United States from the Treaty of Paris (1783) to the mid-19th century, a period in which the young republic transformed from thirteen coastal states into a nation spanning the breadth of North America...