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An 1888 oil on canvas group picture, The Daughters of Catulle Mendès (aka Young Girls at the Piano), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The three girls are Huguette (1871-1964), Claudine (1876-1937), and...

An 1881 oil on canvas landscape, The Garden of Essai, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Painted in Algiers. (Private Collection)

A c. 1875 oil on canvas self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. (Sterling and Francine Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA)

A c. 1600 portrait of Henry IV of France. (r. 1589-1610). Painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger.

A 1623 tapestry showing the siege of Protestant-held La Rochelle in 1573 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).

A 16th-century painting by François Dubois showing the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre of Protestants in August 1572 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland)

A c. 1565 painting The Sack of Lyon by Calvinists, which occurred in 1562 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). (Musée d'histoire de Lyon)

This impressive castle is located in Meißen, a small town close to Dresden, Eastern Germany. In 929, King Heinrich I built a wooden fortification on a rock above the Elbe. This made Meißen the centre of the border region of the same name...

The Dürer House is the only largely originally preserved Renaissance artists' house in Northern Europe. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) lived and worked here from 1509 to 1528. At the same time, it is a unique testimony to the bourgeois culture...

This map illustrates the course of the Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey (49–45 BCE), a defining moment in Roman history that marked the collapse of the Republic and the emergence of autocratic rule. Triggered by Caesar’s defiance...