Here you are looking at the compound microscope developed by Robert Hooke (d 1703), a Renaissance scientist more famous for dabbling in academic fields as…
This enormous oil painting of Saint Michael the Archangel was completed in Peru (Cuzco) around 1700. Despite the picture’s large size (it was at least…
The sculpture you see here shows two decidedly feminine figures, standing shoulder-to-shoulder as they face the sea, their hair whipping in the breeze. It is…
