CUB4503790: Landscape from Varmost mountain, Forni di Sopra, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503839: Vintage, Castle of Spessa farm, Spessa, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503850: Vintage, Castle of Spessa farm, Spessa, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503878: Cloister in Collegiata di Sant'Orso, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503908: Duomo, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503941: The Town Hall, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503966: Typical products, Vecchia Aosta restaurant, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4503985: Desarpa feast, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504002: Bremo di San Grato, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504009: Statue in Collegiata di Sant'Orso, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504047: San Pardo cathedral, Larino, Molise, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504092: Campitello Matese mountain, Campobasso, Molise, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504159: Villa Romana, Roccavivara, Molise, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504199: Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504206: Corso Vittorio Emeuele, Pordenone, Frili Venezia Giulia, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

CUB4504216: Cityscape, Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4567648: Open cluster NGC 457 in Cassiopee - Open cluster NGC 457 in Cassiopeia - The NGC 457 cluster called the Owl cluster contains a hundred stars and is located 9900 years - light from Earth. NGC 457 contains nearly one hundred stars and is located 9900 light years from the Sun; it is also called the Owl Cluster, or the ET Cluster / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4567704: View of the choir of the Church of the Madeleine in Paris made in 1806. (photo), French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4567734: French Revolution: poster on law no. 407 on the marriage of canonesses of 19/01/1791 (print), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4567748: Portrait of Francois I in armor engraved with his monogram and that of his wife Diane de France, 16th century (oil on canvas), French School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4567809: Open cluster M34 in Persee - Open cluster M34 in Perseus - The cluster M34 (NGC 1039) contains a hundred stars; it is located about 1400 years - light from Earth. The open cluster M34 (NGC 1039) is at approximately 1,400 light - years away from Earth in the Perseus constellation. It contains about 100 stars / Bridgeman Images

PIX4567936: Open cluster M35 and NGC 2158 in Gemeaux - Open clusters M35 and NGC 2158 in Gemini - Open cluster M35 (NGC 2168) is visible to the naked eye under good conditions. NGC 2158, lower right, is weaker and is only observed at the telescope. M35 is about 2800 years of light from Earth and is about 110 million years old. M35 (NGC 2168), at left, is a spectacular large open cluster containing about 200 stars located in Gemini. Shining at magnitude 5, it is visible to the unaided eye off the foot of Gemini. It is accompanied by a jewel - like smaller companion, open cluster NGC 2158, seen at the lower right of the photo / Bridgeman Images

PIX4567965: Open cluster M41 in the Great Dog - Open cluster M41 in Canis Major - M41 (NGC 2287), is a cluster of a hundred stars located about 2300 years - light from Earth. This open cluster contains about one hundred stars; it is located at about 2300 light year away / Bridgeman Images

PIX4568046: Star cluster M46 and planetary nebula NGC 2438 - Open cluster M46 and planetary nebula NGC 2438 - M46 (NGC 2437) is an age cluster located at 5400 years - light. It contains about 500 stars, 150 of which are brilliant. It is about 300 million years old. The planetary nebula NGC 2438 (right) does not seem to belong to this cluster, and must be closer although its distance is unknown. M46 (NGC2437) is a rich open star cluster in the constellation Puppis. Within a diameter of 28 arc minutes, or about 30 light - years at its distance of 5400 light - years, M46 contains over 150 bright stars and a total population perhaps over 500. M46 is probably around 300 million years old. It is also noteworthy for the presence of the planetary nebula NGC 2438 on its northern edge (right of center). NGC 2438 is almost certainly not physically associated with M46 due to is probable evolutionary history, its significantly diffferent velocity, and a distance estimate only a little more than half the distance to M46 / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4568069: Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, detail of: 'Homage to Eugene Delacroix', 1864 (oil on canvas), Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4568236: Open cluster NGC 3293 in Carene - Open star cluster NGC 3293 in Carina - Star cluster located in the constellation Carene about 8500 years ago - light from Earth. Unlike the Sun, many stars are found in brilliant clusters such as NGC 3293 where they spend their lives. At birth, which should have been at much the same time for all the stars in NGC 3293, the most massive stars are hot and very luminous and therefore appear as the brightest blue stars. With time they deplete their supplies of nuclear fuel, hydrogen. This evolutionary process involves cooling, so that the stars become redder, and would ordinarily disappear from view, but they also swell to gigantic proportions and so remain visible. The bright orange star in NGC 3293 is the member of the cluster which has aged fastest. This cluster is in the constellation of Carina at a distance of about 8500 light years / Bridgeman Images

PIX4568246: Open cluster NGC 4755 - Jewel Box - The Jewel Box star cluster - The NGC 4755 cluster is located in the constellation of the Southern Cross at a distance of 6400 years - light from Earth. The bright orange star on the top right is Kappa Crucis, a supergiant red star. This cluster contains about fifty stars formed about 16 million years ago. This close-up of the center of the cluster was obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. This image is a “” close - up 'view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 4755, or the Jewel Box cluster. Several very bright, pale blue supergiant stars, a solitary ruby - red supergiant and a variety of other brilliantly coloured stars are visible in the image, as well as many much fainter ones, often with intriguing colours. The huge variety in brightness exists because the brighter stars are 15 to 20 times the mass of the Sun, while the dimmest stars are less than half the mass of the Sun. This is the first image of an open galactic cluster with imaging extending from the far ultraviolet to the near - infrared. NGC 4755 (Caldwell 94) is called the Jewel Box, based on John Herschel's comment in the 1830's that it looked like a superb piece of jewelry. There are about 50 stars in this cluster which formed some 14 million years ago. Most of the cluster members are blue giants which in a few million years will exhaust their hydrogen fuel and become red giants on their way to a cataclysmic end as supernovae. One red giant can already be seen at the center of the cluster (top right) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4568261: Virgin with Grape Statue attributed to Claus de Werve (1380, 1439) of the School of Claus Sluter, 15th century (marble), Werve, Claus de (1380-1439) / Bridgeman Images

XEE4408993: Biarritz (Pyrennees Atlantique) (64) in 1900: the armor chamber and the tip of the lighthouse., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484430: Linguine with seafoof, Hotel San Pietro, Positano, Campania, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484454: Cityscape, Positano, Campania, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484474: Cityscape from the lake Orta (Lake Cusio) with the monastery of Mater Ecclesiae, Orta San Giulio (Saint Jules), Piedmont, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484482: Palace, Orta San Giulio (Saint Jules (Saint Jules), Piedmont, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484499: Flowers, Orta San Giulio (Saint Jules (Saint Jules), Piedmont, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484529: Fortress, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4484558: Cheeses and figs, Piedmont, Italy / Bridgeman Images