FLO4676156: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours or Gaston de Foix Nemours (1489-1512), Count of Etampes, General of the Armees of the King of France - Gaston de Foix (1489-1512), French military commander famous for his campaign during the War of the League of Cambrai - He wears a laurel wreath, a blue tunic over a suit of armour, and rests his hand a sword - From a sculpture by Agostino Busti preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (now in Sforza Castle) - 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
PIX4617736: Orion's Nebula - The Great Nebula in Orion - Located 1500 years ago - the light of the Earth, Orion's Nebula is the closest region to the formation of stars of the Sun. In its heart, a group of young stars called Orion's Trapeze. To the eye, the nebula appears as a misty patch around the central star of the line of three which form Orion's sword. The central group of stars is the Trapezium cluster and these stars are responsible for producing the nebula. It is the high concentration of dust and gas in this part of the sky which has resulted in the formation of the stars, so the Orion nebula is no random association of bright stars and dusty gas. At a distance of 1500 light years, the Orion nebula is the nearest star - forming region to the Sun / Bridgeman Images
PIX4618046: Nebulae NGC 1973 - 1975 - 1977 in Orion - The reflection nebulae NGC 1973 - 75 - 77 in Orion - Reflection nebulae located just north of the Great Orion Nebula. This group of nebulous stars is just half a degree north of the much brighter Orion Nebula and has largely been ignored because of it. The group of stars here appear as a single star to the unaided eye, the northernmost 'star' in the sword of Orion. Most of the blue nebulosity is starlight scattered by dust, while some of the stars are sufficiently hot to excite the wisps of hydrogen that linger here and create a distinctive red glow. To the south of the nebula (at the bottom of the picture) faint traces of the yellow reflected light of the Orion nebula can just be detected / Bridgeman Images
FLO4634272: Chinese costumes: a guard in a tiger suit, a monk burning an offering, merchants negociating a deal, a walking barber, and fishermen carrying their boat and fishing birds, circa 1800. 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 China: guard with shield and sword in tiger suit, a monk burning an offering, merchants making a deal, a traveling barber, and fishermen with boat and fishing birds, circa 1800. 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