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Historical Figures and Statues in Art

Illustrative representations of historical figures and warriors, with a focus on costumes and artifacts from various epochs.

ALESSANDRO FARNESE Duke of Parma, general and diplomat. Spanish governor general of the Netherlands (1578-86), ruling as regent for Philip II of Spain Date: 1545 - 1592
ALESSANDRO FARNESE Duke of Parma, general and diplomat. Spanish governor general of the Netherlands (1578-86), ruling as regent for Philip II of Spain Date: 1545 - 1592
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AUGUST was by the English called 'Arn-monath,' or 'Barn-monath,' meaning harvest-month. The instruments which appear in the woodcut do not seem to differ much from those used at the present day. To the left appears a man sounding a horn, with a spear in his right hand. Whether he is superintending the labourers, or is one of a hunting party entering the field, it is hard to decide. The sheaves are being lifted by a fork into a cart, or wagon, of tolerably good construction.
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The large triumphal car of emperor Maximilian, woodcut by Albrecht Durer, historical, digital improved reproduction of an old woodcut..
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This statue shows Antinous as Bacchus. It was found at the Villa Hadriana and is housed in the Vatican in Rotunda No 54. Known as the Braschi Antinous, this colossal sculpture was found in excavations in 1792-1793 in an area presumed to have been the villa of Hadrian atPraeneste, today Palestrina. Antinous was the Emperor Hadrian's (117-138 A.D.) favorite. He drowned in the waters of the Nile in 130 A.D. and was immediately made a god by the Emperor. Is this statue, which dates from the years immediately following his death, Antinous is shown as the god Bacchus (or Dionysius-Osiris). On his h
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'A young Dahomian, Guinea', c1870s.Artist: E Ronjat
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In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a famed Thracian bard whose lyre music charmed even the wildest of animals (seen here) and even plants, trees, and rocks. The son of the Muse Calliope, he married the nymph Eurydice after taking part in the Argonaut expedition. According to Greek mythology, after a snake killed her, Orpheus went to Hades (the Underworld) to fetch her. Charmed by his music, the gods freed her, but on the condition that he not look at her until he reached the upper world. As he neared the upper world, he looked back and, as a result, she vanished from his grasp back to the Underworld.
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In Greek mythology, Ganymede, also known as Ganymedes, the shining one, is a son of the Trojan king Tros and Kallirrhoe, feeds the eagle, by Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor from Denmark, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Line drawing from the Lisle Psalter titled 'The three living and the three dead'. Dated 14th Century
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The pediments of the Parthenon, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847.
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Altgriechenland. Dame in bunter Kleidung mit Chiton und Himation, Dienerin, nach einem Vasenbild, Modegeschichte, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion ei...
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Sargon II (721-705 BC) on a Battle Chariot, from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, Iraq. Journey to Mesopotamia 1840-1842 by Eugene Flandin
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Samson. Last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges. Engraving. The Nuremberg Chronicle. 15th century.
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Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru John Everett Millais. On November 16, 1532, Atahualpa, lord of the Inca Empire, was attacked and captured by Spanish conquistadors under Francisco Pizarro. Once he was captured, the Spanish forced him to pay a ransom amounting to tons of gold and silver. Although Atahualpa produced the ransom, the Spanish executed him anyway.
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Cultural state in the 13th and 14th century, minstrel, after a woodcut in a minstrel manuscript, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown
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Scene from the Iliad- The Trojan War. Hector and Ajax fighting, 19th cent. engraving in style of Greek vase painting.
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Sergeant at arms, 14th century (1849).Artist: Edward May
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Ordinary shako, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.
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Jefe guerrero asirio de la antigüedad. Cromo de Chocolates Juncosa. Años 1920. Author: Albert Mestre Moragas.
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Seal impression from Warka, near the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. dated to c. 32003000 BC
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Historical drawing, portrait of Kaspar Tiefenbrucker, 1514-1571, luthier from Fuessen, Germany, Europe
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Henry VII (born 1278 or79) (died 24 August 1313) was descended from the House of Limburg-Luxembourg and was Count of Luxembourg and Laroche and Margrave of Arlon. He was Roman-German King from 1308 to 1313 and Roman-German Emperor from 29 June 1312. Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown
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RECONSTRUCCION DE LA FIGURA CON BASTON DE LA RELACION DE MICHOACAN. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Friday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (c1764-c1794) ringleader of the mutiny of 1789 against Captain Bligh on 'HMS Bounty'. Woodcut 1833
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Roman military decorations, after a molding Museum of artillery, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.
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Painting Salon 1861, Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus, J. L, Maillet, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.
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money / finances, coins, ancient world, Greece, coin, portrait of the river god Gela, Gela, circa 490 BC, drawing, 20th century,
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Administrators of the villages, 5th century (1887). Centenier,Cinquantenier,Quartenier. A print from Francois Cudet's Histoire des Corps de Troupes de la Ville de Paris. (France, 1887). By the French artist A Lemercier.
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Azulejo. Pressing wine. Wine Museum. L'Espluga de Francoli, Province of Tarragona. Catalonia, Spain.
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in iran the bas relief of an antique warrior
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Painting in Fresco, in the Sepulchres of Thebes. Illustrations. 1805. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Nile River, Egypt
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The ancient statuary group is called Tyrannicide, depicted are Harmodios and Aristogeiton, they killed the brother of the tyrant Hippias, Hipparchus in 514 BC, they were Athenian heroes whose courage paved the way for Athenian democracy, founded 477-476 BC, now in the National Archaeological Museum Naples, Italy, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print, Europe
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The figures shown here are representative of people in the 12th and 13th centuries. They represent, from left to right: lady and girl, shepherd, Saxon, northern European man, northern European woman.
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fishery drop net woodcut to ""Cosmographia"" by Sebastian Muenster Basel 1544,
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Albrecht Duerer, Occupation with Human Proportions, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original
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Administrators of the villages, 5th century (1887). Artist: A Lemercier
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Genealogy Hohenzollern Rulers 12th and 13th century, History of the Hohenzollerns, historical illustration 1899
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Samoyed man and woman. Woodcut from 'Neu-endecktes Sieweria' (Newly Discovered Siberia) by Georg Adam Schleissing (Zittau, 1693).
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Santa Claus, historical illustration
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Presentation at the clinopodium (Antonina) in Rome, Italy, the Germanic woman follow the army train, last group of a train of Marcomanni submitting to Marcus Aurelius, digital improved reproduction of an original print from 1880, Europe
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In the Roman epic poem, Aeneid, by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are two very good friends. They escape burning Troy with Aeneas and travel with him to Italy. When Aeneas goes in search of In Book 9, they enter the enemy camp of the Latins at night. They slaughter many Latins, but as they leave and are on their way back to their camp, the Latin helmet that Euryalus took glistens, attracting the attention of Latins. Misus manages to escape, but Euryalus is captured. Nisus returns to save his friend, as is shown here in this illustration that dates to around 1900.
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A cartoon depicting an Irish Chief who is shouting "No Union. Erin go Brach!". Illustrated by James Gillray (1756-1815) a British caricaturist and printmaker. Dated 18th century
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Gentlemen of 1625-1630, for after Abraham Bosse, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.
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An Arab and his Family, Turkey, 1890's, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895
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Two Emperors of Tartary. From the Catalan map, 1375. Tartary was a name used to designate the tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
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Game, a brave warrior, Ethiopia. Old 19th century engraved, Narrative of a Journey through Abyssinia by Guillaume Lejean from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
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Marienburg or Malbork, Poland, emblem, symbol, knight, flag ornamentation, historical illustration 1880, Europe
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Medallion Mickiewicz Preault by the cemetery of Montmorency, vintage engraving. Medallion Mickiewicz Preault by the cemetery of Montmorency, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679201
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Chinese General (Guanu) 1800 Japan. Chinese General (Guanu). Japan. 1800. Stoneware covered with thin glaze (Bizen ware). Edo period (1615-1868). Ceramics
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Baron v Boetzelaer / Houdringe
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Illustration on Physiognomy from 'De humana physiognomonia libri IIII'; (1586) By Giambattista della Porta (1535 ñ 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta an Italian scholar. Physiognomy, or the notion that a person's temperament and character can be deduced from the shape of his or her face or body
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Engraving depicting an eagle emblematic of the Holy Roman Empire. Dated 2nd Century
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The figure represented here is a German Jew between 1500 and 1550. The illustration dates to 1882.
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FIGULINA. CULTURA COLIMENSE. - COLECCION DIEGO RIVERA. ARTE PRECOLOMBINO DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO, LAMINA 78. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Captain James Cook FRS 1728 1779 British explorer, navigator, cartographer, captain Royal Navy. Man and woman of New Caledonia
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Leontios (660-706), sometimes spelt Leontius, was an Isaurian citizen of the Byzantine Empire, enlisting as a soldier from an early age and swiftly rising through the ranks under the reign of Emperor Constantine IV. In 695, he deposed Justinian II and claimed the throne for himself.
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Frederick II (1194-1250) was the son of Emperor Henry VI, and was only an infant when crowned King of Sicily by his mother in 1198. When his mother died the same year, he was given to Pope Innocent III, who became his guardian. When Frederick came of age in 1208, he asserted his power over Sicily. Emperor Otto IV invaded Italy in 1209, hoping to conquer Sicily and bring Frederick to heel, but in 1211, Frederick was elected in absentia as King of Germany by various imperial princes fed up with Otto's rule. Frederick entered Germany with a small army and was formally crowned King of Germany in 1212. He became undisputed ruler in 1215 after Otto's abdication, and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1220. Frederick fought often with the papacy, and was excommunicated four times, even once being called an Antichrist. He became King of Jerusalem in 1225 through the Sixth Crusade, marrying Yolande of Jerusalem, heiress to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Frederick spoke six languages and was an avid
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Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. Vendedora de fresas.
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Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. Vendedor de enjuto y leña seca.
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Henry VII (1275-1313) was the son of Count Henry VI of Luxembourg, and he was raised in the French court. When he became Count of Luxembourg and Arion in 1288, he sought the protection of King Philip the Fair of France, becoming a French vassal rather than remain under the weak rule of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry became involved in the political machinations after King Albert I's death in 1308, chosen as a compromise condidate by the electors who feared King Philip's, and consequently France's, attempts to get his brother elected as the next German King. He was crowned in 1309 after some skillful negotiation, and was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement V in 1312, the title having been vacant since Emperor Frederick II's death in 1250. He renewed imperial interest in Italy, launching an Italian expedition in 1310 and being crowned King of Italy in 1311. It was while waging his campaign to unite Italy under the Holy Roman Empire and fighting against King Robert of Naples in 13