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N. C. Wyeth

N. C. Wyeth

Costume design for the ballet "Orphée of the Quat-z-arts", c. 1912 by Florine Stettheimer.

Arch of Constantine by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

At the Battle of Castillon, the last major clash of the Hundred Years War, English forces under John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, were cut to pieces by massed French artillery. Talbot and his son were both slain. This painting depicts the moment of Talbot's death (inaccurately--in fact he was unarmored, due to a vow he had taken several years before).

BnF, Français 1586, fol. 103r

The Battle of Toro 1476 (detail) by José Daniel Cabrera Peña

Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century

Arnold Böcklin Plague

Ancient artworks at Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico.

Lotz Károly (1833-1904), 'Emlékezetére' (In Memorium), ''Művészet'', 1904

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Hacienda San Miguel Regla in Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico

From 1900

Royal Armouries

'Autumn Evening', 1893 (Franz von Stuck)

Illustration for Part V of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)