GIA4716916: Printing office, c1600 - Holland, Printing: on the left the characters use characters, the different stages of the preparation of the printing supervised by a master printer - Engraving from “Nova Reperta” by Giovanni Stradano (Jan Van Der Straet) (Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605), around 1600, Straet, Jan van der (Joannes Stradanus) (1523-1605) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4160629: Cardinal Richelieu founding the Academie Francaise, 1635 - Cardinal Richelieu receiving the first academicians - - Fondation de l'Academie Francaise in 1635 by Louis XIII (1601-1643) and Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu) (1585-1642)., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4145089: Pleiade at Ronsard's. The poets Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560), Jean Antoine de Baif (1532-1589), Jean Dorat (Auratus of his real name Jean Dinemandi, 1508-1588), Remy Belleau (1528-1577), Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Etienne Jodelle (1532-1573) - Chromolithography of the end of the 19th century the, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4417195: Representation of Janus, deity of the beginning and passages, he is represented with two faces (Janus (or Ianus) is the god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings, represented with two faces and a key). From “Mythology of Youth” by Pierre Blanchard 1803., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images