Portraits Gallery

DANTE'S PARADISE: EMPYREAN. Beatrice leads Dante into the Empyrean, or highest level of heaven

DANTE'S PARADISE: EMPYREAN.
Beatrice leads Dante into the Empyrean, or highest level of heaven, where he beholds the angles and souls of the blessed forming a snow white rose in attendance upon the Deity (Paradiso: XXXI, 1-3): wood engraving after Gustav Dore

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Alighieri, Angel, Beatrice, Christianity, Dante, Divine Comedy, Dore, God, Gustave, Italian, Medieval, Portinari, Rosette

CYNTHIA ANN PARKER (1827-1865). American frontierswoman and Native American Cherokee captive

CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
(1827-1865). American frontierswoman and Native American Cherokee captive, mother of Comanche chief Quanah Parker, pictured here with her infant daughter, Topasannah. Photographed in 1861, shortly after she was returned to her family after her nearly 25-year captivity by a Comanche tribe

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HENRY IV (1050-1106). King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, 1056-1106

HENRY IV (1050-1106).
King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, 1056-1106. Illuminations from the 12th century chronicle of Otto of Freising showing, at top, Emperor Henry IV and his anti-pope, Clement III, expelling Pope Gregory VII from Rome by force of arms in 1084 and, at bottom, the death of Gregory at Salerno in 1085

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