PIX4592404: Orion Constellation - Constellation of Orion - Orion the Hunter is one of the most familar and best known constellations. There is extensive and varied mythology about this beautiful collection of stars, but the most common Greek legend has Orion as a giant huntsman, and he appears in this role in Homer's Odyssey. The most persistent legend seems to be that he died from the sting of a giant scorpion, which was placed in the sky so that Orion sets as the Scorpius rises, in an eternal chase across the sky. The momorable outline of the Hunter proudly bestrides the celestial equator and is equally visible from both hemispheres. The distinctive, equally spaced line of stars of Orion's Belt are more or less on the equator and are framed by quartet of bright and colourful stars. More subtle is Orions short sword, hanging from his belt. Under dark skies or in binoculars the central 'star' is distinctly misty. This is the famous Orion nebula, one of many well known telescopic objects that fill this part of the sky. The westernmost Orion Belt star delta Orionis (Minkata) is about a quarter of a degree of arc south of the celestial equator and all three belt stars are within 2 degrees of it. This means they rise and set due east or west of the observer and track the equator across the sky during the night, tracing straight lines in star trail photographs. Note that Orion is upside down as seen from the southern hemisphere, where it is often called 'the saucepan', with the Belt stars forming the base and the Sword stars the handle / Bridgeman Images
LZT1111820: Judanme, Act Ten [of the Chushingura]. [Between 1815 and 1818], 1 Print : Woodcut, Color ; 19 X 25.9 ., Print Shows a Masked Man, One of the Ronin, with a Sword Attacking Osono, the Estranged Wife of Gihei, in Order to Cut Her Hair to the Customary Length of a Nun Making It Impossible for Her Father to Marry Her Off to Someone Else. While This is Taking Place Gihei is Standing behind a Wooden Screen. Having Passed the Test of Loyalty to the Ronin's Plan, Gihei is About to Be Rewarded with His Wife's Hair and Receipt of the Divorce Letter He Wrote in Duress., Kuniyasu, Utagawa (1794-1832) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675962: Uniforms of Italian soldiers, 14th century - The wear tunics in Siena brown with coats of arms of Saint Mark (gold lion on red field), over suits of armour - The soldier with the banner of the church (two keys on a red field) wears a white helmet decorated with silver - From a fresco by Spinello Aretino in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, depicting Pope Alexander III presenting the Doge of Venice with a sword to fight Frederick Barbarossa - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676603: Costume d'un homme de la nobility german, 15th century - German nobleman, 15th century - He wears a red hat tied with green ribbon, hood and collar embroidered in gold, white robe with gold hem, red stockings and grey boots with silver spurs, red belt and sword in white scabbard - (In the original, the collar is yellow, the robe blue and boots yellow -) From a painting by Pinturicchio showing the introduction of Eleanor of Portugal to Frederick III, Piccolomini Library, Duomo, Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4634230: Costumes of the inhabitants of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): couple of Sinhalese (Sinhalese or Sinhalese) and an indigenous vedda wearing a feather skirt, a fur cape and two dogs. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of the natives of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Sinhalese man with sword and cane, and indigenous Vedda man with feather skirt, bow and arrows, fur cape, and two dogs on leashes. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images