Plan of the Raft of the Medusa at the moment of its being abandoned, 150 Frenchmen were placed on this Machine, 15 only were saved 13 days after

This is a plan of Deal Castle, the Tudor artillery fort dating from around 1539. One of a chain of castles along the south coast of England commission by Henry VIII to protect the ...

Gentleman's slipper, made of snakeskin, by W. Muir, Edinburgh, 1859-1870. Made of snakeskin with very large scales, with decorative leather trimming in black and lined with quilted...

The poster - “Aropraysn undzer finif yor-plan veln mir kinem nit derloybn!” (We’ll let nobody to wreck the Five-Year Plan!) in original Yiddish - depicts Red Army mechanic teaching...

Around 1860 Japan was in turmoil about whether or not the country should engage in trade with the West. In 1863 insurgents – advocates of an isolationist policy – fired on western ...

Although the painting is principally an abstract work of art, within the composition that suggests a storm at sea, can be seen the prow of a ship, shown as a dark silhouette. The p...

At the Paris Salon of 1819, Géricault caused a sensation with his monumental work The Raft of Medusa. The painting featured the dead, the dying and the survivors of a French shipwr...