Guard of Rudolf II of Habsburg with Renaissance outfit
1600, illustration depicting a guard with spear and…
Funny as it may look, throughout history the primary aspiration of most people has ever been to be remembered after the Reaper has taken good care of them. The poor had to make do with a wooden cross stuck in the ground, the citizen with a name engraved in a stone, whereas the wealthy, the famous and the powerful could afford a painter to immortalize their faces on canvas. But well done portraits are often a double-edged sword: sometimes they suggest to the posterity also aspects of the soul that should have been better buried with the body… anyhow here they are for you to judge.
1600, illustration depicting a guard with spear and…
Portrait of Sir Martin Frobisher, english seaman, pirate…
Winemaker family enjoying Vendemmia (grape harvesting), vintage engraving
Vintage engraving, portrait of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen…
1600, illustration depicting a guard with sword of…
Portrait of Gerardus Mercator, german-flemish carthographer,created in 1569…
Vintage portrait of Count Francesco Algarotti (1712 –…
Portrait of Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville, French admiral…
Engraving portrait of William Pitt the Younger Prime…
Allegoric frontispiece chapter about commerce, trade and microeconomics…
Portrait of Ludwig Leichhardt German naturalist and famous…
Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt…