Cupid and Pysche by Giulio Romano.
Painted between 1526 and 1528.
The painting depicts the story of the Greek deities Cupid and Pysche. Found in Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche and Cupid (Amor/Eros), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage. Although the only extended narrative from antiquity is that of Apuleius from 2nd century AD, Eros and Psyche appear in Greek art as early as the 4th century BC. The story's Neoplatonic elements and allusions to mystery religions accommodate multiple interpretations, and it has been analyzed as an allegory and in light of folktale, Märchen or fairy tale, and myth.
Diana and Calysto by Titian (Vienna version)
Painted c. 1566.
The painting depicts the moment in which the goddess Diana discovers that her maid Callisto has become pregnant by Jupiter.
The Fall of Man by Hugo van der Goes
Painted after 1479.
Depicts the moment Eve is tempted by the snake to eat the Apple, Adam is by her and they both taste the fruit and are tossed from the Garden of Eden.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Painted c. 1484–1486.
Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides by Peter Paul Rubens
Painted 1638.
Depicts the demi-god son of Zeus, Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides completing the eleventh of his labours, to steal a golden apple from the garden. He did this by tricking the Titan Atlas and walking away with the fruit.
Atalanta and Hippomenes by Guido Reni
Painted c. 1618/9
The history of Atalanta and Hippomenes is represented. The nymph Atalanta, invincible in her career, defied any man who wanted her, her death being the punishment for those who lost. She was defeated by Hippomenes thanks to a ploy facilitated by Aphrodite: throwing golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides so that she would stop to pick them up.
The Judgement of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens
Painted 1638-1639
Depicts the story as narrated in Lucian's 'Judgement of the Goddesses'. It shows the award of the golden apple, though alterations show Rubens first painted an earlier point in the story, when the goddesses are ordered to undress by Mercury. The 1638 version shown here, is now in the Prado and was completed shortly before his death while he was ill with gout. It was commissioned by Philip IV of Spain's brother Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria and on Ferdinand's death moved to the Spanish royal collection. In 1788 Charles III of Spain decided it was immodest and ordered it to be burned, but he died before that order could be carried out.
Le Triomphe de Bacchus by Charles de La Fosse
Painted 1700
During the 18th century was displayed in the Château de Meudon. Depicts the triumph of Bacchus, carried on an elephant, with his tyrsus in his right hand, several Baccantes around him carrying instruments. In the foreground are two children, one mounted on a tiger, on the left one sees Silenus on the reverse.
Idun and the Apples by J. Doyle Penrose
Painted 1890 Abduction of Idun
Odin was travelling with Loki and Haenir through the wilderness, of mountains and woods, but had difficulty in finding food, until they came across a herd of oxen. They slaughter one of the oxen and set to cook it in a earth oven. Despite their effort, the fire would not cook the meat. The gods were upset and hungry, but were helpless.
Above them a giant eagle told them that he would help them cook the meat if he was given a share in the meal. The gods agreed, but when the eagle took a large share of meat, Loki became angry and struck the eagle with a pole. The pole pierced the eagle’s chest. The eagle flew away with Loki still holding the pole.
Loki pleaded with the eagle to let him down, but the eagle refused, unless Loki swore to bring the goddess Idun, keeper of the apples of youth, out of Asgard, to him. As it turn out, the giant eagle was really Thiassi (Thiazi), a giant from Thrymheim. Loki had no choice but to agree, since he was no match again the giant.
One day, Loki told Idun that he found some apples that she could use. As Idun followed Loki deep into the forest, Thiassi, in the form of an eagle again, snatched Idun and flew back to Thrymheim, along with the goddess’ basket of fruit.
Idun was the keeper of apples of youth. These special apples were required to keep the Aesir youthful. Without the apples, the gods and goddesses would grow old and weak.
The Aesir in Asgard began to grow old very quickly without the Idun’s apples. Their minds were also beginning to become feeable. Odin and the other gods managed to capture Loki and forced the Trickster to bring back Idun and her apples, or else they would torture Loki to death.
Loki had no choice but to rescue Idun. Borrowing Freyja’s cloak of feathers, Loki transformed into a falcon and flew to Thrymheim. It was fortunate for Loki, because Thiassi was temporary absence. Finding Idun alone, Loki transformed the goddess into a nut and flew back to Asgard with the nut (Idun) in his claw.
Thiassi immediately pursued Loki, in his gigantic eagle’s form. Loki managed to escape the eagle by flying over the wall of Asgard. When eagle (Thiassi) tried to follow, the Aesir set fire to Thiassi’s feathers so that the eagle plummeted within the wall of Asgard. The other Aesir killed Thiassi where he fell.
Loki restored Idun’s form. Idun gave apples to all the gods so they were restored to their youthful looks.
Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros by Nicolas Poussin
Painted c. 1624/6
This canvas shows the sad story of Aglauros, who, through jealousy, had tried to bar Mercury's way to her sister Herse, whom the god loved. For her transgressions of jealousy of her sister, greed, and desire for Mercury, Aglauros was turned into stone by the god.
Elizabeth I in coronation robes by unknown artist
Painted c. 1600
Queen Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine. She wears her hair loose, as traditional for the coronation of a queen, perhaps also as a symbol of virginity. The painting, by an unknown artist, dates to the first decade of the seventeenth century (NPG gives c.1600) and is based on a lost original also by an unknown artist.
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David
Painted 1812
French Emperor Napoleon I in uniform in his study at the Tuileries Palace. Despite the detail, it is unlikely that Napoleon posed for the portrait. It was a private commission from the Scottish nobleman and admirer of Napoleon, Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton in 1811 and completed in 1812. Originally shown at Hamilton Palace, it was sold to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1882, from whom it was bought by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1954, which deposited it in Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art, where it now hangs.
Vertical in format, it shows Napoleon standing, three-quarters life size, wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers (blue with white facings and red cuffs). He also wears his Légion d'honneur and Order of the Iron Crown decorations, along with gold epaulettes, white French-style culottes and white stockings. His face is turned towards the viewer and his right hand is in his jacket.
Piled on the desk are a pen, several books, dossiers and rolled papers. More rolled papers and a map are on the green carpet to the left of the desk – on these papers is the painter's signature LVDci DAVID OPVS 1812. All this, along with Napoleon's unbuttoned cuffs, wrinkled stockings, disheveled hair, the flickering candles and the time on the clock (4:13 am) are all meant to imply he has been up all night, writing laws such as the Code Napoléon – the word "Code" is prominent on the rolled papers on the desk. This maintains his new civil rather than heroic (as in Canova's Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker) or military (as in David's own Napoleon Crossing the Alps) image, though the sword on the chair's armrest still refers back to his military successes. The fleurs-de-lys and heraldic bees also imply the stability of the imperial dynasty.
Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown by Charles Willson Peale
Painted 1784
Full length portrait of George Washington with Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and Tench Tilghman at Yorktown.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in conference with General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Admiral William D. Leahy, while on tour in Hawaiian Islands. 1944.
L-R: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Leahy, Nimitz
Chinese Water Torture Cell, 1912
The Chinese Water Torture Cell is a predicament escape made famous by Hungarian-American magician Harry Houdini. The illusion consists of three parts: first, the magician's feet are locked in stocks; next, he is suspended in mid-air from his ankles with a restraint brace; finally, he is lowered into a glass tank overflowing with water and the restraint is locked to the top of the cell.
Gandhi leading his followers on the famous salt march to break the British Salt Laws. March 1930.
A Viet Cong base camp being burned, My Tho, South Vietnam, 5 April 1968.
Photographed by Army Specialist Fourth Class Dennis Kurpius
In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa
Members of the 2nd Infantry Division advance under machine gun fire into the outskirts of Brest, France.
9 September 1944
Beaufort, S.C. 50th Pennsylvania Infantry in parade formation (photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan)
February 1862
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862.
First illustration of Fire Lance and a Grenade, 10th Century, Dunhuang. Appears to be a detail from an illustration of Sakyamuni's temptation by Mara, with the demons at upper right threatening with the fire lance and other weapons while those at lower right tempt with pleasures.
Portrait of Otto v. Bismarck by Franz von Lenbach
Painted c. 1895
Depicts Otto von Bismarck in his retirement.
The Doom Fulfilled by Edward Burne-Jones
Painted between 1884-5
The Doom Fulfilled details a later part of the story of Perseus. Those who know the story will recall that Perseus rescued his lover from Kraken, a sea monster. In this painting, the two lovers seem to be in a cave, and the sea is not depicted. Still, Perseus tries to battle the sea monster, which is seen to be covered in metal armour or sea scales. His eyes are locked with those of Kraken, and his lover stands nude on the side. The artist employed the romanticism style in this painting. This style was quite popular in the 19th century. It challenged the rational ideal which was strongly held in the Enlightenment Age. The art form tried to show that emotion and sense were very important in understanding and experiencing the world.
The Doom Fulfilled is classified as a mythological painting as it is based on a Greek myth. It tells a story of the heroic triumph of good over evil. Perseus is the son of the God Zeus, and that puts him on the right side. It is worth noting that most mythological paintings of the era were based on Greek or Roman myths. This is primarily because the Italian Renaissance venerated art forms of classical antiquity. The biggest critics of the Enlightenment Age also had a strong interest in Roman and Greek mythologies.
The Doom Fulfilled was painted using the oil on canvas method. This painting method first grew in popularity in Europe in the 15th century. It presented major advantages over alternative painting methods. One of the biggest advantages of oil on canvas paintings was that the paint dried slowly and gave the artists time to make quick changes. The paintings also lasted for lengthy periods.
Attila the Hun, also known as Atli, in an illustration to the Poetic Edda, the 1893 Swedish edition by Fredrik Sander.
Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens
Painted c. 1609–10
Rubens portrays the moment when, Samson having fallen asleep on Delilah's lap, a young man cuts Samson's hair. Samson and Delilah are in a dark room, which is lit mostly by a candle held by an old woman to Delilah's left. Delilah is depicted with all of her clothes, but with her breasts exposed. Her left hand is on top of Samson's right shoulder, as his left arm is draped over her legs. The man snipping Samson's hair is crossing his hands, which is a sign of betrayal. Philistine soldiers can be seen in the right-hand background of the painting. The niche behind Delilah contains a statue of the Venus, the Goddess of love, and her son, Cupid. Notably, Cupid's mouth is bound, rather than his eyes. This statue can be taken to represent the cause of Samson's fate and the tool of Delilah's actions.
The painting depicts an episode from the Old Testament story of Samson and Delilah (Judges 16). Samson was a Hebrew hero known for fighting the Philistines. Having fallen in love with Delilah, who has been bribed by the Philistines, Samson tells her the secret of his great strength: his uncut hair. Without his strength, Samson is captured by the Philistines. The old woman standing behind Delilah, providing further light for the scene, does not appear in the biblical narrative of Samson and Delilah. She is believed to be a procuress, and the adjacent profiles of her and Delilah may symbolise the old woman's past, and Delilah's future.
The painting was originally commissioned by Nicolaas II Rockox, Lord mayor of Antwerp, Belgium, for his Rockox House. In addition to being a patron, Rockox was a close personal friend of Rubens.
Alexand the Great (AKA Pallas Athene) by Rembrandt
Painted c. 1655
Pallas Athene is a c. 1655 oil on canvas painting by Rembrandt, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The subject of the painting is also sometimes credited as Alexander the Great, although historically, Rembrandt's Man in Armor was supposedly Alexander and not this.
A print of Pallas Athene in the 1659 parade for the marriage of Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau to John George II of Anhalt-Dessau is similar in pose and costume to the painting. The goddess was played by the artist's son Titus van Rijn, which has led to the theory that he based it on Titus' appearance in the parade. Catherine II of Russia bought the painting from count Baudouin in Paris in 1781 via Melchior Grimm. She then gave it to her lover Alexander Lanskoy and it was later transferred to the Hermitage Museum. On 27 June 1930 it was bought by its present owner via Antikvariat, an art dealer.
Sigmunds Schwert by Johannes Gehrts, xylograph by Eduard Ade
Drawn 1889
Gram is primarily seen in the Volsunga Saga used by men in the Volsung line after Sigmund. Sigmund receives it during the wedding feast for his sister, Signy. Part of the way through the feast a strange man appears carrying a sword. Although unknown to Sigmund, this is the god Odin. He thrusts the sword into the Barnstokkr tree that grew in the middle of the hall and said, “The man to pull out this sword from the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift and he will find out for himself that he never bore in hand a better sword than this.” Soon after he departed every man made his attempt to pull the sword out of the wood. All fail except Sigmund who easily extracts it. The sword is a fine sword, and King Siggeir is covetous of it, offering Sigmund three times its weight in gold. When he refuses, King Siggeir grows angry and secretly begins plotting to steal it from Sigmund, eventually killing his father and capturing him and all of his brothers. After this the sword disappears from the narrative until Signy secretly gives it back to Sigmund as he is buried alive with Sinfjotli. After Sigmund avenges his family, he uses the sword in several battles before it is eventually broken by Odin during Sigmund's final battle with the King Lyngvi. Hjördis, Sigmund's wife, takes up the two halves of the blade and keeps them for Sigurd, their son.
Portrait of: Emperor Charlemagne by Taddeo Zuccaro
Drawn between 1544 and 1566
Charlemagne confirming the Donation of Ravenna; the Emperor enthroned, surrounded by figures
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on blue paper
Verso: A standing man
Black chalk
Arthur Draws the Sword from the Stone by Walter Crane.
1911, illustrated for King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys and Girls
The twelfth–century poet Robert de Boron adds the tale of the Sword in the Stone to the legend. After baby Arthur was born, Merlin secretly took him to be raised at the castle of Sir Ector, a loyal ally of the King's. There, the young prince was raised as the bastard child of Sir Ector's, and no one, not even Ector himself, knew the boy's true identity. But Ector also had a son, named Sir Kay. And because young Arthur was thought to be a bastard child, Sir Kay and his friends teased and taunted him, and his adopted parents looked down on him. The poor boy grew up in shame of his birth, never knowing of his royal lineage.
Meanwhile, all was not well with the King. Just months after giving away his only son, Uther Pendragon turned ill, and died shortly after. With no heir to lead the kingdom, the country fell into despair. Rival dukes and lords disputed over who was the best fit to rule England.
In the midst of the turmoil, the nobles called on Merlin to find a solution. Having seen to it that baby Arthur was safe, he erected a large stone, on top of which sat an anvil, in a churchyard in Westminster, a region of London. Stuck in the anvil was a sword. An inscription on its blade read:
The sword was magic, Merlin explained, and only he who was fit to rule England could pull it from the stone. Nobles from far and wide came to try and pull the sword from the stone, but not even the strongest of men could accomplish the task. Eventually, the sword became forgotten, and England fell into greater ruin.
As the boy Arthur grew older, Merlin introduced himself to him. Merlin and the boy would meet after he had finished his chores for Sir Ector, and the two of them became close friends. Merlin tutored the boy in many subjects, always teaching him that knowledge was greater than brute force. For, although Arthur was a small, scrawny lad scarcely capable of lifting a sword from its sheath, Merlin saw in him the potential to be a wise and just ruler who would unite Britain, and rescue her from the chaos into which she had fallen. And so, through education and experience, the wizard helped the young prince to realize his full potential: a potential of greatness. The potential to rule with justice and compassion what would become the greatest kingdom ever known.
One day, when Arthur was fifteen, Merlin brought him before the Sword in the Stone. A crowd had been assembled, and was waiting anxiously. Arthur's stepbrother, Sir Kay, was the first to try and pull the sword, but it would not budge. Then Arthur tried. The sword came loose. The crowd cheered, and Arthur was crowned King of England.
Jeanne d'Arc by workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1620
Aeneas' Flight from Troy by Federico Barocci
Painted 1598
Federico Barrocci's with Anchises, his son Ascanius and his wife Creusa is the second version painted in 1598 of a picture executed ten years earlier for Emperor Rudolf II of Austria. Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere presented Cardinal Scipione with this second version, which entered the Borghese collection before 1613. It was this painting that inspired Cardinal Scipione to commission a large marble group on the same subject from Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also in the Borghese Gallery). The myth of Aeneas, ancestor of Romulus and Remus, referred to the birth of Rome and thus confirmed the Borghese family's high status in the city.
Barrocci's many drawings of nature led him to achieve a spontaneity and naturalness in movement, colour and airy effects, and a silvery luminosity that was to influence the 17th-century masters, particularly Rubens. Never before had flames been painted so close to, with an energy suggesting even the crackle of the fire, from which Ascanius seems to be protecting himself by covering his ears. But the human delicacy of Barrocci's anti-heroic and anti-rhetorical figures was not to be really appreciated in Rome, because it could not compete with the classical antique statuary.
Louis XIV, King of France by Charles le Brun
Painted circa 1661-1662
Charles le Brun was the court painter of Louis XIV and painted many other scenes and portraits for and of the King.
Emperor Shunzhi
c. 1644
Portrait of Shunzhi Emperor, By Court Artist of the Qing Dynasty. Currently housed within the Palace Museum.
Saint John the Baptist by Jacopo del Casentino and workshop
c. 1330
Depicts Saint John the Baptist with Staff. Angels are in each top corner of the painting.
Rage of Achilles by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1757
The "Rage of Achilles" is a dramatic and powerful scene that depicts a moment from Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, where Achilles, the Greek hero, is consumed by anger and grief over the death of his close friend Patroclus. In this fresco, Tiepolo captures the intense emotions and turmoil of the scene, with Achilles in the foreground, wielding a sword, and a group of characters surrounding him, conveying the tumultuous nature of the story.
Amenhotep III relief
c. 1350 BCE
Entry of Alexander into Babylon by Charles le Brun
c. 1665
Alexander's entry into Babylon took place in 331 BCE after his decisive victory over the Persian king Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela. This battle was a turning point in his campaign, and it allowed him to capture the Persian capital of Babylon and other major cities. The entry into Babylon was seen as a symbol of his triumph over the Persian Empire.
The Return of Christopher Columbus by Eugène Delacroix
1839
The plunder of the so-called New World—gold, weapons, pelts, small statues, and even captive Indigenous people—are presented to the court of Spain in this scene of Christopher Columbus’s return to Castile in 1493 after his first voyage to the Caribbean. The painting represents a celebratory view of Columbus as triumphant explorer, his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, rising to receive him and his crew. In reality, during his four sojourns in the Americas, Columbus and his men committed atrocities on the Taíno, Arawak, and other Indigenous peoples, enslaving them, torturing them, and massacring them.
Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under the sea of red, reconstruct the timeline.
Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette by William Hogarth
Painted in 1743.
A satire regarding high society, the painting tells the story of the old earl who has died, so his son is now the new earl, and his wife is the countess. As was still the fashion at the time, the countess is holding a reception during her toilette, her grooming, in her bedroom, in imitation of this age-old custom of kings called a levee. The fact that Hogarth ridiculed this convocation of people in the bedroom of a noble during their "morning" grooming (often very late in the day) proves that such a convocation in such an intimate room was increasingly viewed as inappropriate and lewd.
Tre giovani ebrei condotti alla fornace by Matteo Rosselli
Painted between 1630 and 1640
Depicts the story of The Prayer of Azariah and the accompanying Song of the Three Young Men from the Book of Daniel and embellish the story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, three young Jewish men who were bound and thrown into a fiery furnace for defying Nebuchadrezzar's order to worship an idol.
John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his Family by Johann Zohanny
Painted c. 1766
Depicts John Peyto-Verney, fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his wife, Lady Louisa North with their three children; John, Louisa and Henry.
A Peasant Family at Meal-time by Jan Steen
Painted c. 1665
Depicts a standard peasant family at meal-time. The painting is also known by other name, Grace before Meat. It is a family of four, the man of house and his wife with two children. A dog is present eating scraps and a toy boat is discarded on the floor.
A Surgeon Treating a Peasant's Foot by David Teniers the Younger
Painted c. 1640s
Depicts a barber-surgeon removing a plaster from a patient's foot while his female assistant heats a replacement bandage over hot coals. The presence of a crystal ball, suspended at the top of the painting, makes the moral message of this painting, quite literally, crystal clear. It symbolizes the empty vanity of man, with the surgeon an incompetent charlatan and the patient a gullible fool.
Peasant Family in an Interior by Le Nain
Painted c. 1642
Depicts three generations of a peasant family relaxing by the fireside round a table in the evening. Light coming from a window illuminates their faces and the folds of their simple clothes. By virtue of its size, quality and character it is considered one of the Le Nain's masterpieces.
Kitchen Interior by Dirck de Vries
Painted c. 1592
De Vries was one of many Netherlandish artists who left his war-torn homeland to come to Venice, where he painted Netherlandish subjects in a Venetian style. As in the Netherlandish tradition, the kitchen of this wealthy home is full of everyday details, such as meat hung to dry. The cook reaches for the roosters offered by the tradesman. In Dutch, plays on the word for "bird" can refer to sexual intercourse. In the lusty manner of Netherlandish paintings and popular prints of market folk, the man is propositioning the cook in front of her mistress, who does not understand peasant "body language." The lady's dress and platform shoes identify her and the setting as Venetian, and De Vries has adopted the broad brush strokes of his Venetian colleagues.
Kartoffelsetzen by Vincent van Gogh
Painted 1884
Part of van Gogh's Peasant Character Studies. Van Gogh had a particular interest in creating character studies of working men and women in the Netherlands and Belgium, such as farmers, weavers, and fishermen. Making up a large body of Van Gogh's work during this period, the character studies were an important, foundational component in his artistic development.His painting Potato Planting shows a man creating a furrow and the woman dropping the seed potato behind him. Van Gogh may have been inspired by the description of Jean-François Millet's biographer, Alfred Sensier of Potato Planting: "one of his [Millet's] most beautiful works" of a married couple "on a wide plain, at the edge of which is a village is lost in the luminous atmosphere; the man opens the ground and the woman drops in the seed potato."
Alboin and Rosamund by workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Painted 1615
Depicts the historical moment of the Lombard king Alboin (530s – 28 June 572) ordering to serve wine to Rosamund (fl. 567 - 572) in her father's skull, which he had previously killed. Her father, Cunimund (died 567) was king of the last king of the Gepids, falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567). Alboin then proceeded to marry Rosamund, and in 572 Rosamund orchestrated his assassination with the assistance of the king's foster brother, Helmichis.
Fontainebleau Forest photographed by Eugène Cuvelier
Taken in early 1860s
In September 1856, at the age of nineteen, Eugène Cuvelier visited Barbizon. This small town on the edge of the ancient Forest of Fontainebleau served as home base for the pre-Impressionists who popularized the practice of plein-air painting. Three years later, he married Louise Ganne, daughter of the Barbizon innkeeper in whose auberge the painters gathered to eat, drink, and talk about art. Although the young couple settled in Arras, they returned often to Barbizon, where Cuvelier explored the village streets and nearby forest with his tripod and camera, just as his painter friends did with their easels and paintboxes.
Blessed with talent, early technical training, and the friendly mentoring of the naturalist painters, Cuvelier created some of the most lyrical and sensitive of all nineteenth-century landscape photographs. Wide-ranging in expression and subject, his sylvan views masterfully render the dappled light of the forest interior, the palpable atmosphere of a misty clearing in the wood, the muscular power of leafless oaks rising against a wintry sky, or the delicacy of a sapling in spring. Like the forest itself, Cuvelier's exquisite photographs invite us to escape momentarily from the modern urban world and to breathe the air of a place where nature impresses the senses and the soul.
Men working near a steam shovel in Duluth, Minnesota photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Taken in c. 1890
Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford photographed by Eadweard J. Muybridge
Taken in 1872
Early in a long, creative career distinguished by landmark studies of animal and human motion, Eadweard J. Muybridge created a remarkable group of photographs of Yosemite Valley in California. During his second journey there, lasting from June through November 1872, he made his most significant and extensive body of landscape photographs, many taken with mammoth glass plate negatives measuring 20 x 24 inches. This image of the valley from Rocky Ford is one of his most luminous and sublime views. Taken in early morning light, this carefully framed and dramatically lit photograph reveals Muybridge's interest in atmospheric conditions, shimmering reflections, and the movement of water.
Steel mill, photographed by Lewis Hine
ca. 1907 - 1910
The point of view of this image captures the almost inconceivable scale of the blast furnaces, smokestacks and conveyor belts of a steel mill. The foreground railway lends perspective and distance. These mills were extraordinary feats of construction in aggressive pursuit of an industrial dream. The size of the buildings represents the unshakable confidence the American steel industry had in its own future, a future which is now associated with dying mill cities and rusted, abandoned, yet compelling sites.
Children playing
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Employees of "Georges Bormann" working in St Petersburg
c. 1910
Workers of the Georges Bormann Association's chocolate-confectionery factory packing goods.
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury, Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes, honorary advisor to the U.K. Treasury at the inaugural meeting of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., March 8, 1946.
c. 1890s
Club parlor of the Jekyll Club.
Workers Party Meeting photographed by Viktor Bulla
c. 1920
The Chinese People's Republic celebrating its first anniversary, November 1950 credited to Sovfoto
The Chinese People's Republic celebrating its first anniversary, November 1950. Many of the 500,000 participants in the demonstration are holding placards bearing Stalin's likeness.
1928 silver series US dollar bill
Mount Washington Hotel in 2008 photographed by Wikipedia user MountainClimber2
Workers
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Bomb disposal robot photographed by Brian A. Jaques
21 November 2005
This improvised explosive devices detonator system provides troops with a safer ability to discharge improvised explosive devices. U. S. Marine Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Callahan discusses improvised explosive devices with U.S. Congressmen and Represenatives in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2005. The Congressmen are visiting Iraq to get a better idea of how Marines are protecting themselves from explosive attacks. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian A. Jaques
Code breaker, Bombe (credited to Granger NYC)
20th century
bombe code breaking machine used for the decryption of secret messages.
Can factory workers stamping out end discs (credited to Seattle Public Library)
1909
Female workers in an H. J. Heinz can factory stamping out end discs (the discs that fit on either end of each can). From the materials for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, held in Seattle.
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
c. 1950s
The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory. Man at the console: ? Man at the paper tape machine: Richard Bianco.
Rows and Rows. Photographed by Steve Jurvetson
11 October 2005
Thousands of workers in this factory assembling and testing fiber optic systems. In many places of the Chinese economy, human labor replaces automation (in contrast to Japan, for example)
Barcelona bike & ped signal photographed by Scott Ehardt
22 May 2006
Bicycle and pedestrian crossing signal in Barcelona, Spain at the intersection of Carrer d'Ausias March and Carrer de Ribes.
Mounting a Ford Car at the Ford Motor Plant
c. 1914
Ford Model T Chassis outside Highland Park Plant.
A pair of BigDog military robots, photographed by Lance Cpl. M. L. Meier.
27 June 2006
BigDog robots trot around in the shadow of an MV-22 Osprey. BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.
Maschinenmensch "Robot"
January 1932
George the humanoid robot from the 1930s was constructed by motor engineer Alan Herbert Reffell and Captain W. H. Richards. Captain and journalist William H. Richards was secretary of the Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers. The picture shows W. H. Richards and the Robot.
Polen, Funker mit Verschlüsselungsgerät "Enigma" (photographed by Wiesemann)
February 1941
A radio company in operation. The enemy is listening. Therefore the radio message is encrypted.
Computer connections?
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Alan Turing and colleagues
1946
This photograph shows Alan Turing (on the bus steps) with other members of the Walton Athletic Club, an amateur club based in Walton, Surrey, an outer suburb of south-west London, not far from the National Physical Laboratory. The club members were probably on their way to a race meeting on a Saturday in 1946. The location is identifiable as Hersham Road, Walton. The figure at the front of the group, holding a piece of paper, is Ted Shepherd, a cross-country runner who was probably organising the transport for the meeting. Second from the right is his son Brian Shepherd, who would accompany Alan Turing to race meetings and pass him food at stages during long distance runs. This information comes from Mr Mike Saunders, who is Ted Shepherd's grandson, and recalls his grandfather speaking of Turing's high-carb training diet.
ITT Corporation former headquarters, photographed by Jim Henderson
13 December 2008
Looking northeast at southwestern corner door of 75 Broad Street at corner of South Williams Street, former headquarters of ITT Corporation, on a cloudy afternoon.
C-130 Culvert crash
28 August 1975
C-130E TC-62 of the Argentine Air Force was destroyed when a bomb placed by Montoneros exploded on the runway in front of the aircraft during take-off from Tucuman, Argentina. Six of 114 Gendarmes on board were killed. See Operativo Independencia for the background history.
Ford & Kissinger In Conversation. Photographed by Thomas O'Halloran
16 August 1975
President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, conversing, on the grounds of the White House, Washington DC.
Salvador Allende and Hector Cámpora
1973
On May 25, after the assumption of Cámpora, there was a clear change in ideological orientation since the president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and the president of Cuba, Osvaldo Dorticós, both exponents of the two, were in Buenos Aires at the change of command ceremony. socialist experiences of Latin America. Just three days later, the government resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, interrupted by pressure from the United States, and also began to stimulate trade with Fidel's Cuba, with or without the US blockade.
CHILE: ELECTIONS. Photographed by James N. Wallace.
1964
Supporters of Popular Action Front candidate Salvador Allende marching in Santiago at the time of the Chilean presidential elections, 5 September 1964.
Lentes Salvador Allende, photographed by Richard Espinoza
January 2007
Optical glasses of the President of Chile Salvador Allende, found in the Palacio de la Moneda, after the bombing.
Augusto Pinochet. Photographed by Ben2.
1982.
Motorcade with President Augusto Pinochet along La Moneda on the 9th anniversary of his coup d'etat.
Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ahmadabad
c. 1965
Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), Iranian Prime Minister and a major political figure in the modern history of Iran. This photograph was taken ca 1965 in Ahmadabad, Iran while Mosaddeq was under house arrest. His government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom's MI6. Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death and was buried in his own home so as to prevent a political furor.
President Truman and PM Mosaddegh
23 October 1951
American president Harry S. Truman and Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh arrived in the US on 8 October and from 18 to 23 November he and Truman discussed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company dispute.
Tudeh Demonstration
19 August 1953
Democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, after having nationalized the oil industry. The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was re-installed in the primary position of power. Massive protests broke out across the nation, leaving almost 300 dead in firefights in the streets of Tehran.
Sha'baan Ja'fari and his followers
28 August 1953
Sha'baan Ja'fari (1921 – 19 August 2006) was an Iranian strongman and athlete. He led his men against opponents of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, most notably during the 1953 coup d'état orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency. He was an agent sent by Abstergo Industries to Iran to help the Shah take absolute power.
Yeltsin comdemning the coup
19 August 1991
In response to the forming of a coup against him, Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin arrived at the White House, Russia's parliament building, at 9 am on Monday 19 August. Together with Prime Minister Ivan Silayev and Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, Yeltsin issued a declaration that condemned the GkChP's actions as a reactionary anti-constitutional coup. The military was urged not to take part in the coup. The declaration called for a general strike with the demand to let Gorbachev address the people.
4 June 2006
Bialowieza. Photograph by Yapo
In December 1991, the Belavezha Accords, the decision to dissolve the Soviet Union, were signed at a meeting in the Belarusian part of the reserve by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Soviet Union stamp
1988
Propaganda for Perestroika, 5 kop. It reads: "Restructuring is the reliance on the living creativity of the masses."
President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Start II Treaty at a Ceremony in Vladimir Hall, The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 3 January 1993
President George H. W. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev sign United States/Soviet Union agreements to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC on the 1st of June 1990.
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin laughing at a joke. Press conference in Washington
24 October 1995
Putin has connections to the Templar organization Abstergo Industries, which helped put his friend, mentor and predecessor Boris Yeltsin in power in 1991. In September 1999, Chechen terrorists bombed apartment buildings in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk. Secretly orchestrated by Abstergo, these bombings boosted Putin's popularity as a presidential candidate.
A Blackwater Security Company MD-530F helicopter aids in securing the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 4, 2004, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.(U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Michael E. Best)
Contractors Assist in Deepwater Horizon Spill, photographed by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley
21 May 2010
A worker cleans up oily waste on Elmer's Island, just west of Grand Isle, La., May 21, 2010. Hundreds of workers are cleaning up oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead that finally reached the shore a month after the rig exploded, killing 11 people.
20 April 2010
Platform supply vessels battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew.
Photo by Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
New Orleans, LA, September 16, 2005
Contractors hired by FEMA to do body removal go into areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina to gather the remains of residents who have died as a result of the hurricane.
22 June 2009
5 Houston Center, which formerly housed the headquarters of Halliburton. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. The company has been involved in numerous controversies, including its involvement with Dick Cheney – as U.S. Secretary of Defense, then CEO of the company, then Vice President of the United States – and the Iraq War, and the Deepwater Horizon, for which it agreed to settle outstanding legal claims against it by paying litigants $1.1 billion. KBR, one of Halliburton's subsidiaries at the time, paid bribes to high-ranking Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004. Under a deal reached with the U.S. Justice Department, Halliburton has agreed to pay $382 million to settle the bribery case.
Baghdad International Airport taken by Flickr user Jim Gordon, now inactive.
2007
BIA was developed in 1979, but the Iran-Iraq war delayed its opening until 1982 where it was unveiled as the Saddam International Airport after then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In April 2003, U.S.-led Coalition forces invaded Iraq and changed the airport's name to Baghdad International Airport.
Photo by Sgt. Michael Baltz
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (April 29, 2009) Navy chief petty officer Jason Marino, with the Joint Task Force Guantanamo engineers, meets with civilian contractors to review plans for an upcoming project at JTF Guantanamo Camp 6. The JTF Guantanamo engineers maintain and construct facilities throughout the task force. JTF Guantanamo provides support to the Office of Military Commissions, to law enforcement and to war crimes investigations.
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock
8 June 2006
Firefighters Andrew Brammer (right) and Bobby Calder (left) from contractor Wackenhut Fire and Emergency Service replace their oxygen tanks while fighting a fire at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq.
NASA's Terra Satellites Sees Spill on May 24. Photographed by Michon Scott.
24 May 2010
Sunlight illuminated the lingering oil slick off the Mississippi Delta on May 24, 2010. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image the same day.
Oil smoothes the ocean surface, making the Sun’s reflection brighter near the centerline of the path of the satellite, and reducing the scattering of sunlight in other places. As a result, the oil slick is brighter than the surrounding water in some places (image center) and darker than the surrounding water in others (image lower right). The tip of the Mississippi Delta is surrounded by muddy water that appears light tan. Bright white ribbons of oil streak across this sediment-laden water.
Tendrils of oil extend to the north and east of the main body of the slick. A small, dark plume along the edge of the slick, not far from the original location of the Deepwater Horizon rig, indicates a possible controlled burn of oil on the ocean surface.
To the west of the bird’s-foot part of the delta, dark patches in the water may also be oil, but detecting a manmade oil slick in coastal areas can be even more complicated than detecting it in the open ocean.
When oil slicks are visible in satellite images, it is because they have changed how the water reflects light, either by making the Sun’s reflection brighter or by dampening the scattering of sunlight, which makes the oily area darker. In coastal areas, however, similar changes in reflectivity can occur from differences in salinity (fresh versus salt water) and from naturally produced oils from plants.
Photo by Patsy Lynch/FEMA
Galveston, TX, August 11, 2009
Employees of the DRC Emergency Services, LLC, a boat salvage company, are using a crane to cut the hull of this shrimp boat before removing it from the bay. FEMA is working with State agencies and private contractors to help Texas continue its recovery from Hurricane Ike.
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The United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, in 2009. Top row (left to right): Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Bottom row (left to right): Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
28 April 1975
President Gerald Ford (center) meets with Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld (left) and then-Deputy-Chief of Staff Dick Cheney (right) in the Oval Office.
23 July 2004
Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, talks to Former First Lady Nancy Reagan while in the Captain’s cabin aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Mr. Wolfowitz and Mrs. Reagan are aboard Reagan to participate in the homeporting ceremony at Naval Air Station North Island San Diego, California.
1 May 2003
George W. Bush passes through the "side boys" after a successful trap aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in a S-3B Viking assigned to the Blue Wolves of Sea Control Squadron Three Five (VS-35) designated "NAVY 1". President Bush is the first sitting President to trap aboard an aircraft carrier at sea. The President is conducting a visit aboard ship to meet with the Sailors and will address the Nation as Lincoln prepares to return from a 10-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
11 December 2006
Prime Minister of Georgia, Zurab Noghaideli meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Baghdad, Iraq (Oct. 15, 2003) -- U.S. Secretary of Commerce Don Evans gives a snack to an Iraqi schoolgirl during a visit to an elementary school in Baghdad, Iraq. Secretary Evans met with community leaders to talk about the progress of the economy in Iraq during his visit to Baghdad. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg.
Family watching television
c. 1958
Photo by Evert F. Baumgardner
RCA black/white Indian Head test card, motif of the 2F21 monoscope tube, used from 1940 until the advent of color television.
Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the 1963 March on Washington.
Photo by Warren K. Leffler
Photo by George Campbell
16 September 2008
"We lost power in Worthington on Sunday, September 14, 2008 due to a hurricane Ike fueled wind storm. The entire disaster involved trees demolishing power lines, and nowhere was it more spectacular than the intersection of State Rt. 161 and Hartford Street, where a tree pulled down the power lines on top of a car with three people in it. They were OK, but 161 was closed and most of downtown Worthington was without power until a crew of ten trucks and twenty men drove up from West Virginia and began work around 8pm."
Photo by Punkmorten
24 April 2009
Housing at Ringstabekk, not far from the sports field. Seen from Ringstabekkveien.
Power house mechanic working on steam pump. Photo by Lewis W. Hine
1920
one of his "work portraits", shows a working class American in an industrial setting. The carefully posed subject, a young man with wrench in hand, is hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his job. But while constrained by the machinery (almost a metal womb), the man is straining against it—muscles taut, with a determined look—in an iconic representation of masculinity.
Tower Of London Traitors' Gate Seen From The River (photographed by Onofre Bouvila)
August 2006
A picture of the Traitor's Gate of the Tower of London (St Thomas' Tower) as seen from the river.
Torii of Shitaya Jinja in Tokyo
6 April 2007
Photo by Taliesin
View of Wall Street, New York 2008.
Photo by Sbazzone
Eggberg Farms, photographed by David Gilmore
24 January 2008
"Emerging from the woods and nearing our destination in Eggberg, we saw several farm houses. The impressive sight of the Lake of Uri below us reflecting the surrounding mountains was a stark contrast to the snowfields above."
Mount Desert Island, photographed by Mourial
June 2008
The coast of Mount Desert Island, near Southwest Harbor, viewed from the sea
Wheatrig farm, North Ayrshire, Scotland
18 October 2007 by Roger Griffith
The Fall of Man, by Hugo van der Goes
painted between 1470-75
As contrasting pairs the Fall and the Redemption of Man, death and life, a paradise flooded with light and a dark overcast horizon, find their formal counterpart in this stylistic and compositional realisation of the theme. The delicate and sharply contoured bodies of the first two human beings are quite different from the figures in the Lamentation, which are interpreted in a painterly fashion and set restlessly into the scene in a continuation of the tradition of Rogier van der Weyden’s expressive painting. This has led to the supposition that the two panels were painted at different points in time, rather far apart from one another. Goes, in his striking rendition of the “tempter” with the head of a woman, body of a salamander and feet of an aquatic bird, was falling back on an existing tradition that was occasionally found in Netherlandish (book) paintings. The work is mentioned in 1659 in the inventory of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm but attributed in error to Jan van Eyck. Later all knowledge was lost that the two panels of the diptych, which had meanwhile been separated, belonged together. The former outside panel has also been preserved (KHM, GG, Inv. No. 5822 B). They were not presented together again until 1884 and 1887, by that time attributed to van der Goes. Initially, Hugo van der Goes worked primarily in Ghent. His involvement in the decorations for the wedding of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to Margaret of York in Bruges in 1468, however, brought him more widespread fame, awakening the interest of the archduke and later emperor Maximilian. The latter visited the painter in 1477 during a stay in Ghent and Brussels on the occasion of his marriage to Mary of Burgundy. By then, Goes, who was already suffering from depression, had entered the quiet seclusion of a monastery.
Residences at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. Photographed by Mark Brown
29 September 2009
Families have moved into 180, of the 316 total new homes scheduled for construction, at Schofield Barracks' Moyer neighborhood. New home exterior paint colors help differentiate the neighborhood from the adjacent Porter Community.
15 March 1962
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's trip to India and Pakistan. Mrs. Kennedy at the Taj Mahal. Photograph by Cecil Stoughton, White House, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
January 2005
Gateway to the grounds of the Taj Mahal, seen from the inside.
Paris Parvis des Droits de l'homme towards Eiffel Tower (photographed by MoonSoleil, AKA Conny Liegl)
7 July 2007
Photo by Eldar Kamalov
15 October 2006
Landscape photo of Statue of Liberty in the afternoon.
Photo by Wen-Yan King
2 February 2007
A line of children in school uniform walks past Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.
Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby
24 April 2007
Clouds fill the sky around the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Photo by Adrian Pingstone
June 2005
Buckingham Palace, London, UK
Albert Einstein. Photographed by Ferdinand Schmutzer.
1921
Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921
Photo by Sgt.Russell Lee Klika.
7 February 2009
Daily life around Afghanistan moves forward as U.S.Army Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion 19th Special Forces Group of the W.Va, Army National Guard conduct missions around the country in support of Operation Enduring Freedom XIII.
G-20 Riot police (photographed by David Griebeling)
25 June 2010
A man burns a torch, sparking a riot. photographed by Jason Hargove.
June 26, 2010, Toronto G20 Riot
Maoists burn their torch in a distraction that leads to the initial conflict on Queen Street, between Spadina and Soho // 3:03pm
Photo by ClemRutter
24 February 2007
The Stop the War Coalition protesting after the 2007 march, speeches in Trafalgar Square
Riot police at the G-20 Summit, Toronto (photographed by Amal Y)
26 June 2010
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