Solar corona and prominences 1860. Observations made by Warren de la Rue at Rivabellosa in Spain during the total solar eclipse, 18 July 1860. From Le Ciel by Camille Flammarion. (Paris 1870).
Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens, male displaying, inflated red throat patch, dark brown eye, hooked beak, wings held upwards, green feather sheen.North Seymour, Galapagos islands.
Kent, South East, England, clifftop, England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, David Young, landscape, scenery, countryside, holiday, vacation, village, National Trust, plaster, beams, Tudor
'Macbeth and the Witches' by Henry Daniel Chadwick (active mid-19th century), English painter. Macbeth meeting the old hags as they cast a spell over their boiling cauldron saying Bubble, bubble toil and trouble. Scene in Shakespeare's play first performed in c1606. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Art; Commerce; Trade; Food; Poultry; Rustic; Sixteenth century; 16th century
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At Market', 1564. Oil on wood: Joachim Beuckelaer (c1533-1574) Flemish painter and draftsman. Woman on left holds two live chicken she has brought to market in the wicker cage her right hand is resting on. Her left hand is touching a basket of eggs. Man holds up two live birds by their legs
EUROPE United Kingdom | Ireland -- 08 Dec 2010 -- It's Snow White...Snow cover over the British Isles including the Republic of Ireland on the 8th December 2010 as seen from the MODIS instrument on the NASA Terra satellite. Arctic conditions abated for a few days before blanketing most of the country once again on the 16th December 2010. In some areas recorded temperatures are the coldest since records began in 1910 -- Picture by Lightroom Photos | NASA | Geodaas | University of Dundee
History; French; Religion; Christian; Heresy; Hundred; Years; War
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Joan of Arc before King Charles VII at Chinon, replies to the prelates who are interrogating her, February 1429'. St Joan (c1412-1431) Maid of Orleans, French patriot and martyr .Gillot Saint-Evre (1791-1858) and Dominique-Louis Ferreol Papety. French Painters. Chateau de Versailles.
?Marriage a la Mode: The Bagnio', 1743. Oil on canvas. Wiliam Hogarth (1697-1764) English painter, printmaker, and cartoonist. Earl killed by wife's lover. Fifth image of satirical moral series on aristocratic marriage arranged for money.?
Satellite image of Iceland on 28 January 2004 showing it covered in a blanket of snow and ice which is obscuring the permanent glaciers and icecaps that exist year-round. Credit NASA. Science Winter
Philip II (May 21, 1527 ? September 13, 1598) King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king consort of England (as husband of Mary I) from 1554 to 1558, King of Portugal and the Algarves (as Philip I) from 1580 until 1598 and King of Chile from 1554 until 1556.
WHOVIS, WHOMOU, WHOWOR Banff, Canada, Rockies, Banff, National Park, Mountains, blue sky, crisp, clean, sharp, wilderness, remote, breathtaking, glacial, glacier, peaks, snow capped, ice, tree lined, Douglas Fir reflective mirror like still calm tree moraine lake
A Music Party: Group in a courtyard round table covered with a carpet. Through gateway is a glimpse of a canal and the houses on the opposite bank. Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) Dutch painter.
Obverse of medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577. Known as Brahe's comet, this is the comet which convinced the Danish astronomer Tycho or Tyge Brahe (1546-1601) that there is change beyond the sphere of the Moon. It is shown in his system of the universe published in his Mundi aetherei recentioribus Phaenomensis, (1588).
?Jan Floreins Triptych, 1470s. Oil on panel. Hans Memling (1430/1440-1494) South Netherlandish painter. Left panel: The Nativity: Mary in blue, Joseph in red and holding a candle and two angels look in wonder at infant Jesus.?
'Adoration of the Magi' painting on panel. Taddeo di Bartolo (c1362-1422) Italian painter of the Sienese school. The three kings bring the symbolic gifts of Gold, Frankinsense and Myrhh to the Christ child in the stable. Ox and Ass in background.
Assembly in the Great Chamber of the Paris Parlement : the Seat of Justice, to be addressed by Louis XV (King of France 1715-1774) 22 February 1723, who took control of government on this, his 13th birthday. Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler is greeted by an audience in a theatre in Germany c1935. Key Nazi leaders attending are seen in the State Official Box. Left to right: Josef Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Herman G?ring, Field Marshall Von Mackensen, Adolf Hitler, General Keitel and Admiral Raeder.
The Battle of Valmy 20 September 1792. French stopped the advance of the Prussian army on Paris. Horace Vernet (1789-1863) French painter. Oil on canvas.
?A Man and a Woman'. Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) Dutch painter. Dutch interior with young man and woman by a virginal. He holds a glass in his hand. On table, right, is an instrument of the violin family.
?A Music Party', 1659. Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) Dutch painter. Dutch interior with woman with lute showing music to man on left. Man on right holds a viola da gamba(?). Maidservant approaches through archway.
World War II 1939-1945: Slovakian pilot serving with the German air force. From 'Signal', August 1942, German propaganda magazine produced by the Wehrmacht.
Interior of the colonnade of St Peter's, Rome, at the time of the conclave of 1769. Designed by Giovanni Bernini (1598-1680). Painting by Hubert Robert (1733-1808).
?Shrine (Reliquary) of St Ursula, 1489. Gilded, painted wood. Hans Memling (1430/1440-1494) South Netherlandish painter. End panel of casket showing St Ursula (4th century) protecting virgins. Pilgrimage Christian?
EUROPE United Kingdom | Ireland -- 20 Dec 2010 -- It's Snow White...Snow cover over the British Isles including the Republic of Ireland on the 8th December 2010 as seen from the MODIS instrument on the NASA Terra satellite. Arctic conditions abated for a few days before blanketing most of the country once again on the 16th December 2010. In some areas recorded temperatures are the coldest since records began in 1910 -- Picture by Lightroom Photos | Universal News And Sport (Europe) | NASA | Geodaas | University of Dundee
Peasant Woman with Buckets and Child', 1912. Oil on canvas. Kazimir Malevich (1878?1935) Russian artist. Woman walking along road carrying buckets on a pole over her shoulder, child walking beside her.
Kent, South East, England, cliffs, beach, coast, sea, clifftop, England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, David Young, landscape, scenery, countryside, holiday, vacation, Dover, cliffs, beach, coast, sea, clifftop, Botany Bay, Broadstairs, beach, sand, shoreline, paddle, swim, sunbathing, cliff, pinnacle,
?Isaac Blessing Jacob', oil on canvas. Painting by Bernardo Strozzi (c1581-1644) Italian Baroque painter. Blind Jacob, Old Testament patriarch, tricked by Rebekka into blessing his son Jacob rather than Esau.
St Teresa (Theresa) of Avila (1515-1582) Spanish mystic and saint who reformed Carmellite order. Artist, Thomas Blanchet (1614-1689), French historical painter.
History; War; France; England; Hundred; Years; War
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'Joan of Arc's entry into Orleans, Evening of the Liberation of the Town, 8 May 1429'. St Joan (c1412-1431) Maid of Orleans, French patriot and martyr, mounted and in full armour. Henry Sheffer (1798-1862) French. Painting. Oil on canvas. Versailles.
Master of the altarpiece of St Bartholemew c. 1499. St Thomas, DoubtingThomas, placing his hand into Christ's wound. On left, St Jerome, on right St Ambrose and St Mary Magdalene. God the Father, with Dove of Holy Spirit, looks down. Angel bottom right plays a Hurdy-Gurdy. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
The Patio' Oil on Canvas. Henri Achille Zo (1873-1933) French painter and illustrator. Women in white and a man smoking lounge in cane chairs by a tiled fountain. Tray of cooling drinks. Summer Heat Indolence
