What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
In December of 1508, Michelangelo wrote a sonnet about what it was like for him to paint the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
This clip is from The Agony and the Ecstasy, a 1965 film about the Italian artist Michelangelo and his incredible:sculptures (such as the Moses, David...
The prototype for the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 first flew in 1947.
The MiG-21 was a Soviet-era fighter-interceptor which was heavily used by North Vietnam against American planes during the Vietnam War.
This image depicts one of Dorothea Lange's most-famous photographs. The subject is Florence Owens Thompson; the picture was taken in February or March...
This photo, from the U.S. National Archives depicts a coal mine once operated near Wilder, Tennessee.
Minoru Yashui was the first of three Japanese-Americans to challenge the U.S. federal government for violating the civil rights of Japanese-Americans ...
Margaret Utinsky referred to her underground network, which helped prisoners of war at Cabanatuan, as Miss "U.
A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...
As he watches Marley's Ghost leave, through the window of his home, Scrooge is shocked to see and hear more phantoms flying in the sky with long chain...
Henry Morgan's successful raid on Porto Bello, Panama netted him and his buccaneers a great deal of loot.
Today's fight for Mosul is not the first time this city has been embattled. It was once involved in the Battle of Gaugamela, fought between Alexander ...
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