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A drum from an Ionian column of the Mausoleum originated above the lower part, which decorated with a frieze of animals taken to be sacrificed pointing towards a sculpture of what may be Mausolus, stood ready to receive offerings.

In a 15th-century miniature, a craftsman checks the angle of a block with a set square. In his other hand, he holds a stonecutter’s hammer.

Jane Austen’s beloved 1813 novel depicts the troubles of a rural English family of the gentry class in the early 19th century. It opens with a famous line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The couples in the novel, of which an early edition is pictured, embody Austen’s attitudes toward courtship in the Regency period. Some are partnerships based on affection; others are more practical. She also shows what can happen to those who marry without careful consideration.

Austen spent the last years of her life with her mother and sister in this house in Chawton, England.

Dante places Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, a Ghibelline who later allied with the Guelphs, in the deepest circle of Hell among the traitors. He tells Dante how, imprisoned in the Tower of the Muda in Pisa along with his children, he watched them die and implies that he then devoured their bodies. As he speaks, he gnaws the skull of the archbishop who decreed his terrible death.

Construction of the cathedral’s Main Chapel began in 1523. It was placed in the center of the original mosque and adorned with more traditional Christian artworks, including a 17th-century marble altarpiece and paintings honoring the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

Dionysus is flanked by Apollo, god of archery, and Aphrodite, goddess of love, in this fresco from Pompeii, now at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.