GIA4805380: The monks handed over silkworms to the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (483-565). The emperor will thus begin the silk trade. Engraving by Giovanni Stradano (Jan Van Der Straet) (Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605) 17th century, Straet, Jan van der (Joannes Stradanus) (1523-1605) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4808132: O Tanit! You love me, don't you? Illustration by V.A. Poirson (1890) for the novel “” Salammbo”” by Gustave Flaubert, taking as part the mercenary war at the time of the First Punic War (246-241 BC) between the Romans and the Carthaginians., Poirson, Victor-Armand (1858-93) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4853752: Fronde (1648-1653): on the day of the straws on 4/07/1652, the Town Hall was burned and about thirty notables, who became in favor of King Louis XIV because they wished to end the siege of Paris, were massacres by soldiers disguished as workers - (Fronde rebellion, the massacre of parisian notables at the city hall, 4th July 1652) Illustration by Louis Charles Bombled (1862-1927) from Mercier's “The Great Days of the City Hall” - Private Collection, Bombled, Louis Charles (1862-1927) / Bridgeman Images