LRI4616723: La dame au camee lia... quoi? 1957 (Collage), Mesens, Edouard (1903-71) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4616740: The sibylle of Delphi Detail of a vault of the Sistina Chapel (Sistina) Fresco by Michelangelo Buonarroti called Michel Ange (Michelangelo or Michelangelo, 1475-1564) Michelangelo (Michelangelo or Michelangelo, 1475 - 1564). 1536-1541. Sistine Chapel Wall, Musei Vaticani. Rome Italy, Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4616888: Young French woman with a little boy, 18th century, by an engraving by Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832) - Lithography after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902), from “Costumes historiques des 16th, 17th and 18th century” by Georges Duplessis (1834-1899), edition 1834-1899 67, Lechevallier-Chevignard, Edmond (1825-1902) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4616957: Portuguese peasant of the 16th century - Lithography based on an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902), from “” Costumes historiques des 16th, 17th and 18th century” by Georges Duplessis (1834-1899), edition 1867, Lechevallier-Chevignard, Edmond (1825-1902) / Bridgeman Images

OMG4617011: Paris seen from the 20th arrondissement. Photography 10/04/09. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618236: Hotel Intercontinental, 2 rue Scribe in Paris 9th. Photogrpahie 25/08/07. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618252: The Theatre Saint Georges, Place Saint Georges, Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618288: The Square Berlioz, Place Adolphe Max in Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618311: Cinema Pathe in Paris in the 9th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4618347: The mother of the child and the kidnapper discuss, 1935 (Collage), Varo, Remedios (1908-63) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618377: Nebula NGC 2170 in Unicorn - Nebula NGC 2170 in Monoceros - Nebula by reflexion located in the constellation Unicorn. This rich collection of predominantly reflection and sparse emission nebulosity exists in the western part of a vast star forming region known as the Mon R 2 association. The “” R”” designation stands for reflection and indicates an association of stars illuminating reflection nebulae. Most of the members of Mon R 2 are type B stars located along an east - west line stretching across 2 degrees of the winter sky, situated about 8 degrees east of the Orion Nebula. The Mon R 2 association resides at a distance of 830 pc and formed about 6 to 10 million years ago along the edge of the Mon R2 molecular cloud / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618480: Rosette and Cone Nebulae - The Cone and Rosette region - Large field image of the Cone nebula (centre left) and the Rosette nebula (top right), in the constellation Unicorn. This wide field image shows the rich colorful Cone nebula region (at the center - left of the image) and the Rosette Nebula (at the top right). They are both located in the Monoceros constellation, very close to the better known Orion constellation / Bridgeman Images

LBY4618499: L'Opera Garnier, Place de l'Opera, Paris 9th. Architect Charles Garnier, construction 1862-1875. The Opera or the National Academy of Music and Dance represents the best architectural expression of the Napoleon III style, eclectic, baroque, overload. Photography 2002. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4618534: The Passage Joffroy in Paris 9th. Architect Gabriel Hippolyte Destailleur, construction 1846. Photography 2002. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4618545: L'Hotel de la Paiva, Place Saint Georges, Paris 9th. Architect Edouard Renaud, construction 1840. Photography 2002. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4618555: Black bryony, Dioscorea communis (Tamus communis) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618261: Place Saint Georges in Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617242: Eglise Notre Dame de Lorette, 18 bis rue de Chateaudun, Paris 9th. Its name comes from the light and elegant young women lorettes who housed behind the church. Construction 1823, architect Hippolyte Lebas (1782-1867). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617275: Deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618301: Tarantula Nebula in the Great Magellan Cloud - Tarantula nebula (NGC 2070) in Dorado - NGC 2070, the Tarantula Nebula is a vast star-forming region located north of the Great Magellan Cloud galaxy, in the southern hemisphere about 170,000 years - light from Earth. Image obtained by combining light through different filters (SII 5x 2min, Ha 20x 2min, [OIII] 11x 2min, H - beta 10x 2min, L (IR) 2x 2min, IR 4x 2min, R 8x 2min, G 5x 2min). The largest emission nebula in the sky, the Tarantula Nebula (also known as NGC 2070 or 30 Doradus) is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the southern hemisphere at about 170,000 light year from Earth. Image obtained with different filters (SII 5x 2min, Ha 20x 2min, [OIII] 11x 2min, H - beta 10x 2min, L (IR) 2x 2min, IR 4x 2min, R 8x 2min, G 5x 2min) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4617361: Custom painting n 6 - Serigraphy, 1965, Phillips, Peter (b.1939) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618344: Boulevard Haussmann, neighborhood Richelieu Drouot, Immeuble BNP Paribas, Paris 9th. Photography 11/09/07. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4618433: Madonna all'arancio, 1496-1498 (oil on panel), Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Battista (c.1459-1517) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4618461: Common arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Claves and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4618539: The passage Joffroy in Paris 9th. Architect Gabriel Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), construction 1846. Photography 2002. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4618564: Black, 1951 (painting), Burri, Alberto (1915-95) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4618633: Bulrush or club-rush, Schoenoplectus lacustris (Bull-rush, Scirpus lacustris). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4618637: The Musee de la Vie Romantique, 16 rue Chaptal in Paris 9e. Private hotel rented by brothers painters Ary (1795-1858) and Henri (1798-1862) Scheffer. Acquired in 1987 by the City of Paris, the Musee de la Vie Romantique presents collections of souvenirs and objects of art legues in the city, recalling two great figures of the 19th century: writer George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, 1804-1876) and Ary Scheffer. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4609806: Subdivision in Hyeres (Var). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4609825: Subdivision in Hyeres (Var). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609830: Australian hollyhock or native hollyhock, Malva preissiana (Mallow-like lavatera, Lavatera plebeia), Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609844: Scorzonera-leaved rampion, Phyteuma scorzonerifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609863: Sperch (Spercheus emarginatus), hydrophilic coleoptere variete. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609884: Caterpillar and butterfly (Adscita statice) and common sorrel. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4609894: Red mill ball white place, 1889 (poster), Cheret, Jules (1836-1932) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4609916: Barree spiral galaxy NGC 1559 and supernova - Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559 with a supernova - The galaxy NGC 1559 is a galaxy of Seyfert located about 50 million years ago - light in the constellation Reticule. In this image obtained in 2005 by the Kueyen European telescope of the VLT in Chile, a bright star is visible just above the galaxy, a supernova of type Ia named SN 2005df. On the night of August 4, 2005, an amateur astronomer and supernovae discoverer Reverend Robert Evans discovered a supernova just North of this galaxy. This supernova is classified as a somewhat unusual type Ia supernova, caught probably 10 days before it reached its maximum brightness. Such a supernova is thought to be the result of the explosion of a small and dense star - a white dwarf - inside a binary system. As its companion was continuously spilling matter onto the white dwarf, the white dwarf reached a critical mass, leading to a fatal instability. NGC 1559 is a SBc (s) - type spiral galaxy located about 50 million light - years away, that weighs the equivalent of about 10,000 million of suns, and is about 7 times smaller than our Milky Way. Receding from us at a speed of about 1,300 km/s, it is a galaxy of the Seyfert type. Such galaxies are characterized by a bright nucleus that radiates strongly in the blue and in the ultraviolet. Astronomers think that about 2 solar masses of gas per year are transformed into stars in this galaxy. Like most galaxies, NGC 1559 probably contains a black hole in its centre, which should have a mass that is equivalent to 300,000 suns. Colour composite image obtained with the multi - mode FORS1 instrument on ESO's 8.2m VLT. The supernova, SN 2005df, is visible as the bright star just above the galaxy / Bridgeman Images