Images

Garuda (mythical bird with a half-human form), 4th–5th century CE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson meet for the last time prior to the Battle of Chancellorsville. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Confederate General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, November 1862. By Nathaniel Routzah. Valentine Richmond History Center, Cook Collection.

General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson during the American Civil War, painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.

Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville on 2 May 1863, print published by Kurz and Allison in Chicago, IL, 1889. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Young Stonewall Jackson, photograph taken sometime after his graduation from West Point, circa 1846, published in The photographic history of the civil war by Francis Treveylan Miller and Robert S. Lanier, New York, 1911.

Confederate General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson (1824-1863), photograph taken on 26 April 1863, seven days before he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. National Archives and Records Administration.

Château of Amboise during the Renaissance, showing the castle as it was during the reign of Henry III of France (1574-1589), illustration by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Only the buildings shown in black can still be seen today.

Located on the second floor of the Château d'Amboise, Amboise, Loire Valley, France, the Orléans Room, which was once used by Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans (reign 1830-1848), is decorated in the 'Empire' style that was all the rage at the...

King Charles VIII of France (1470-1498), oil on panel portrait after an original by artist Jean Perréal (c. 1455 to c. 1528), 16th century. Musée de Condé, Chantilly.