LUN4367500: Portrait of Jacques Dufresne, French sculptor. Opening of his exhibition in the Galerie Landrot in Paris on October 25, 2007. / Bridgeman Images

LUN4367566: Portrait of Vera Molnar, painter, in her studio in Paris in 2007. / Bridgeman Images

LUN4367788: Portrait of Michel Nedjar, painter and sculptor, in his studio in Paris in 2007. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358115: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. St. Petersburg. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358187: Woman in the inner course of the mosque of Umayyads (Umayyads, Umayyads), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358196: Colonnade behind stones, Palmyra site, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358241: Prayer in the mosque of Umayyad (Umayyad, Umayyad), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358328: Woman with bag (detail), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361147: Renge-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - pond garden - Rene-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - pond viewing garden / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361201: Manshu-in - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - Manshu-in - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361378: Tofuku-ji (North Garden) - Kyoto (Japan) - Showa era - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1939 - Tofuku-ji (Northern Garden) - Kyoto (Japan) - Showa period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mireori Mireori Mireori I in 1939 / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358406: Women veiled, souk Hamidiye, Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358475: Painting by President Assad and his son Bassel above the souk in Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358487: Souk, containers containing spices and dried fruits, Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358562: Prayer, mosque of the Umayyad (Umayyad, Umayyad), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358565: Prayers in front of the mausoleum of John the Baptist, Umayyad mosque (Umayyad, Damascus), Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358574: Prayer in front of the mausolee of John the Baptist, mosque of the Umayyads (Umayyads, Umayyads), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358667: Woman legs with manteu in the wind, Damascus, Syria / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361468: Ryogin-an (sub-temple of Tofuku-ji) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1964 - Ryogin-an (sub-temple of Tofuku-ji) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) design) design) Shigemori Mirei in 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361471: Ryogin-an (sub-temple of Tofuku-ji) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1964 - Ryogin-an (sub-temple of Tofuku-ji) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) design) design) Shigemori Mirei in 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361489: Tofuku-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - ere Showa - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1939 - Tofuku-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Showa period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1939 / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361669: Tofuku-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - ere Showa - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1939 - Tofuku-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Showa period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) and moss garden designed by Shigemori Mirei in 1939 / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358862: Typical cookies with in the background the son of the owner of the pastry shop Moussattat, one of the oldest in the city of Aleppo, Syria / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358892: Portrait of the writer Amélie Nothomb, Paris, France, 2004 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358916: Paris 2004. French writer Frederic Beigbeder. / Bridgeman Images

MIC4361975: Shoden-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - Shoden-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) / Bridgeman Images

MIC4362009: Shoden-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - Shoden-ji - Kyoto (Japan) - Edo period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) / Bridgeman Images

MIC4362030: Ryoan-ji (Dragon Rest Temple) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 - Ryoan-ji (The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359069: View of the Gulf of Naples and Castel dell'Ovo. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359120: Damascus, Syria - Commemorative Statue of Saladin (1138-1193) (Salah al Din Yusuf al-Ayyubi (al Ayyubi), first sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359147: Gothic vaults: the Krac of the Knights (Qala'at el Husn or Qala'at al Hosn) in Syria: moat. Castle built around 1100 by Raymond IV of Toulouse, known as Raymond de Saint Gilles, Count of Toulouse and Tripoli (Raymond I) (1042-1105). / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359210: Israel, Jerusalem, the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359222: Turin, Italy. View of the castle of Valentino made by the architect Carlo Castellamonte. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359249: View of the murals of the houses of the town of Orgosolo in Sardinia: portrait of the German revolutionary and communist activist Rosa Luxemburg (or Luxembourg, 1870-1919), co-founder of the Spartakist movement (Spartakism or German Social Democrat Party). / Bridgeman Images

MIC4362039: Ryoan-ji (Dragon Rest Temple) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 - Ryoan-ji (The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 / Bridgeman Images

MIC4362048: Ryoan-ji (Dragon Rest Temple) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 - Ryoan-ji (The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) - Kyoto (Japan) - Muromachi period - Buddhist temple - karesansui (dry landscape garden) - UNESCO World Heritage Site 1994 / Bridgeman Images