PIX4592438: Constellation Orion - Orion constellation - The constellation Orion. In overprint, the mythological form of this constellation, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. 22 January 2007, Quimper (Finistere - France). Orion constellation. Constellation mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) has been added. January 22 2007, Quimper (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594019: Constellation of the Sextant - Constellation of Sextans - Constellation of the Sextant extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Recolorised image. Map showing the constellation of Sextans with its mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690). Recolored Image / Bridgeman Images
PIX4593341: Constellations of the Little Lion and the Lion - Constellations of Leo Minor and Leo - Leo Minor the lesser Lion, is a constellation of the northern Spring and was created by Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687), first published in his 1690 atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum. He is believed to have named the star 46 Leonis Minoris 'Praecipua' because it was the principal star in his new and not very distictive constellation, which at 232 square degrees is 64th largest. Leo Minor is due north of the distinctive sickle shape in Leo, and south of the hind leg of Ursa Major, 'The Great Bear' / Bridgeman Images
PIX4593107: Peacock Constellation - Constellation of Pavo - Pavo, the Peacock, lies south of Sagittarius and Corona Australis, and is one of Johann Bayer's twelve constellations, introduced in 1603. It is one of several birds in the southern sky, including Apus, Grus, Phoenix and Tucanae. The legends say that the goddess of the heavens, Juno (the Greek Hera) ordered a hundred - eyed giant, Argos Panoptes, to keep his eyes on her wandering husband, Jupiter. He ordered Argos slain and Juno transformed the 100 eyes into the Peacock's tail. These eyes are also meant to represent the starry sky / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594646: Boreales Constellations - Boreal constellations - A map of the sky representing the constellations of the northern hemisphere around the Earth. Engraving from “Harmonia Macrocosmica” by Andreas Cellarius, 1708. Northern hemisphere constellations around the Earth. Plate of the Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius, 1708 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594080: Winter constellations - Winter constellations - The moon growing with ash light passes near the Pleiades cluster in the constellation Taurus. On the left, the constellation Orion. 11 April 2005 The crescent Moon with Earthshine is next to M45, The Pleiades, as they set in the twilight in the west with the Winter constellations of Orion and Taurus. April 11, 2005. (c) 2006 Jerry Lodriguss/www.astropix.com (c) 2006 Jerry Lodriguss/www.astropix.co / Bridgeman Images
PIX4592063: Constellations of the Lion, Cancer and Gemeaux - Leo, Cancer and Gemini constellations - September 26, 2006, Monts d'Arree (Finistere - France). In overprint, the mythological forms of these constellations, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Mythological Constellations forms from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added. September 26 2006, Monts d'Arree (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594765: Dress (Robe) of the reign of King George II, 1727-1760. She wear a pink hat with plumes and ribbons, a tight bodice with lace cuffs, and a full crinoline petticoat. Based on Thomas Jeffery's Collection of Dresses, Gray's Inn Journal, Spectator, Rose Bradwardine's dress in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594412: Presbyteres agaric (Agaricus personatus 1), russule heterophyll (Russula heterophylla 2), clavary amethyst (Clavaria amethystina 3) - Chromolithography based on a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi” (English), Robert Hardwicke Edition, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4590318: Female musician playing chimes and gongs, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593639: Ancient Roman musical instruments. A timbrel of Basque drum (1), a citharistria or female minstrel (2), a double Lithuus (3), Pan playing on the syrinx (4), a bacchanal playing on two flutes of the same pitch, tibiae pares (5), antique theatrical masks (6,7), and a genuine ancient metalline Lithuus (8). Copperplate engraving from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594617: Dress (Robe) of the reign of Edward V and Richard III, 1483-1485. She wears a tall headdress with long veil, a furtrimmed mantle with wide collar over a striped dress. Seated in a medieval carved chair with lions on the arms. Based on portraits of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV, description of the dress of Anne Neville, queen of Richard III, illuminated Royal manuscript 16F2, and effigy of Lady Peyton, Isleham Church, Cambridgeshire. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4591961: Anatomy of the human eye, showing eyeball, optic nerve, muscle, cornea, retina, sections through eye. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4590120: Bonze or Buddhist monk performing a vow to crawl on all fours with a saddle on his back. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4590583: Chinese lamp on a chair stand and wax candles made of tallow from the tallow tree, Triadica sebifera, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4590326: Chinese musical instruments, Qing Dynasty: iron Hien-pan 1, bronze vase 2, drum, wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a fish 4, and Bong-gui 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594909: Urban furniture on the Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. As part of the redesign of the Champs Elysees entrusted to Bernard Huet, a new line of urban furniture has been specially designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte to give a unit by eliminating bulky and unnecessary elements: new benches, candelabres, lights, kiosks. Photography 1998. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594794: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594675: L'Eglise de La Madeleine, Place de la Madeleine, Paris 8th arrondissement. Its construction lasted nearly a century. Subject to political aleas, it was finally Napoleon (1769-1821) who entrusted Pierre Vignon (1763-1828) with the task of building an ancient temple dedicated to his military glory. Only the Restoration restored its religious vocation to the Church of Sainte Marie Madeleine in 1842, architect Charles Girault (1851-1932). Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images