Photographer Page

ACI

The Leif Eriksson memorial stands in Reykjavik, Iceland. Eriksson is believed by many to be the first European to set foot in North America, making landfall some 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain.

A bronze statue of Dom Pérignon stands in Épernay. The monk did not invent Champagne in the 1690s. This legend originated in the 1820s when Dom Grossard, one of Dom Pérignon’s successors at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers, falsely attributed it to the 17th-century cellar master

Numerous 10-foot-high statues were placed between the columns of the pteron (peristyle); these colossal figures represented gods, heroes, and ancestors of Mausolus. It is believed that two of them were carved by the influential Greek sculptor Scopas. Some experts believe they represent King Mausolus and his wife, Artemisia, while others identify them with two ancestors of the king.

Lions like this sculpture graced the steps of the pyramid.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was decorated with as many as 444 sculptures and reliefs adorning the monument from top to bottom. The upper pyramid was topped with a sculpture of Mausolus at the reins of a chariot.

Cranes were innovations used in the construction of Gothic cathedrals, shown in this illustration.

Europe’s first fully Gothic structure, the Basilique Cathédrale de Saint-Denis, near Paris, was built under the direction of Abbot Suger in the mid-12th century. Large stained glass windows, enabled by engineering advances, create a play of colored light across the interior.

The master builder directs masons on a 14th-century decorative relief tile.

Mr. Bennet is a country gentleman who enjoys a comfortable life. Having married his wife for her youth and beauty, he has long grown tired of her whims and neglects family affairs to pursue his own interests, particularly his books. Mr. Bennet has a laissez-faire attitude toward their daughters’ education and does not share Mrs. Bennet’s obsession with securing suitable husbands for their girls. Worst of all, he ignores the silly flirtations of the two youngest girls, shown here with him in an A. Willis Mills's illustration, which nearly ruins the family’s reputation.

William Collins is Mr. Bennet’s cousin and heir to Longbourn, the entailed Bennet estate. Pedantic and pompous, he serves as an Anglican clergyman on the estate of his patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy’s aunt. Mr. Collins first asks Elizabeth to marry him, and she flatly rejects him. Her friend Charlotte Lucas accepts Mr. Collins’s proposal in A. Wallis Mills's illustration, but she is clear-eyed that this match is for security and stability, not for love.