Bridgeman Education

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ID: MAJ5033095

Diorama theatral composes lithographs producing optical illusions representing a deer hunting scene realized by Martin Engelbrecht. Early 18th century.

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ID: MAJ5031805

The Hercules of Bayer (1603): Hercules kneels on his arm carrying the lion's skin, in one hand an orange branch, a memory of the garden of Hesperides, and in the other his club. Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882.

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ID: MAJ5031813

Zodiacal Constellations - The Virgin and the Balance: The constellation of the Virgin, drawn as a young woman with two wings, carrying a branch in her right hand and an epi in her left hand, and the constellation of Libra. Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882.

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ID: MAJ5031824

The constellation of Hydra, with a Curbeau that tingled it and a Cup of Balancing, originated from the myth of Apollo who had sent a crow with a cup full of water to make a sacrifice to Jupiter. Below the Hydre, the French astronomer Lalande (1732-1807) drew a Cat (felis) and Lacaille (1713-1762) a scientific apparatus, a Pneumatic Machine. Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882.

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ID: MAJ5031828

One of the last southern constellations visible in France is that of the Whale, represented as a fantastic animal with a forked tongue and a long tail. South of the Whale the Celestial maps contain three modern constellations: the Sculptor's Workshop and the Chemical Furnace (first designed by astronomer Lacaille in 1752) and the Electronic Machine, which first appeared in the Atlas de Bode). Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882.

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ID: MAJ5031832

A starry night perfect for observing the sky. Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882.

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ID: MAJ5031850

Venetian mirror in red color.

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ID: MAJ5031872

French mirror with crystal frame, gold mirror decorated with diamonds and floreau motifs of 1810, mirrors with gold frame of 1815.

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ID: MAJ5031896

Pharmacy box: wooden travel case containing 24 bottles and bottles, a mortar and other accessories. End of the 19th century

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ID: MAJ5032138

Primitive world dinosaur people. Representation of the world before the creation of human beings. Illustration by W.F.A. Zimmermann from “The world before the creation of man” 1857

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ID: MRZ5032143

High relief depicting Adam and Eve hunts from Paradise and the bunch of grapes brought back from the promised land (the return of Josue and Caleb with a huge bunch of grapes from the land of Canaan) 1791. Cathedral (dome or duomo) of Milan Italy

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ID: MRZ5032214

Architecture: statue of Saint John Evangelist (1809), and low relief depicting Elijah and the Angel. Detail of the facade of the Cathedral (dome or duomo) of Milan Italy

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ID: MAJ5032218

Studies on gli sfondi, ombre e luci. “” Conviene aver le parti alluminate nei campi oscuri, e le parti oscure nei campi chiari, siccome per la figura viene dimostrato.”” Engraving from “” Treat de la peinture””” by Leonardo da Vinci (Leonard de Vinci) (1452-1519).Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci. Milano, Societa tipografica, 1804.

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ID: MAJ5032256

View of the city and port of Genes, the eclatante quotes, the marble city, Genes-la-Superb, in the book on the Mediterranee by Louis Enault (1824-1900), a French journalist and traveller.

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ID: MAJ5032278

The picturesque port of the fortified city of Tangier in the 19th century, in the book on the Mediterranean by Louis Enault (1824-1900), a French journalist and traveller. Louis Enault, LA MEDITERRANEE SES ILES ET SES BORDS, Morizot, 1862, Paris. Adolphe Rouargue (1810-187?) and Emile Rouargue (1795? -1865) illustrators.

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ID: MAJ5032283

View of the city of Athenes in the 19th century dominated by the Acropolis, in the book on the Mediterranee by Louis Enault (1824-1900), French journalist and traveller.

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ID: MDO5032713

Portrait of Riccardo Licata (born 1929) in his studio. 1980 years.

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ID: MDO5032724

Portrait of Jean Jacques Pauvert circa 1995.

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ID: MDO5032794

Children's games in the streets of Pizzo Calabro (Calabria). 1982.

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ID: MDO5032858

Portrait of the writer Alberto Bevilacqua (born 1934) in the mid-1960s.

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ID: MDO5032652

Arthur Miller, American writer born 1915. 1988

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ID: MDO5032682

View of the promenade along the sea. Havana, Cuba. 1998

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ID: MAJ5031941

Wooden frame decorated with gilded motifs, late 17th century. Various open Latin books dating from 1650-1680.

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ID: MAJ5031948

Wooden frame decorated with gilded motifs, late 18th century. Various open books of the 18th and 19th century.

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ID: MRZ5031970

Gothic architecture: overview of the cathedral (Duomo or Dome) of Milan. 14th-15th century Italy

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ID: MAJ5032066

A court largely feminine appears to the Baron an irony worthy of mention among his adventures. Illustration by William Strang (1859-1921) and JB Clark from “The Adventures of the Baron of Munchausen (Munchhausen) by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736-1794) (1789), 1895