The Schaller or Salade. Helmet and neck cover (beard hood) from the 15th century.
The Schaller. Helmet and neck cover from the 15th century.
Category: Germany
Imperial Herald and Lansquenet 1510-1550, by Hans Holbein.
Imperial Herald from the first half of the 16th century. Colored pen drawings by Hans Holbein. Garb of the common lansquenets.
Carolingian 768 – 814. The Frankish power.
The Frankish power. The Byzantine Empire. The Scandinavian kingdoms. The Norwegian coast-lands. The Caliphate of the Omayads.
Prussian army uniforms c. 1870. Franco-Prussian war.
The Royal Prussian Army. Sub officer-bearer of the 2nd Guard Regiment. Officer 4th Regiment of the Queen Augusta.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. ELIZABETH is kneeling at the shrine in prayer for Tannhäuser, when she hears the chorus of the band of returning pilgrims, of whom he was one.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este. A drama by J. W. von Goethe.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este is a drama in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Italian poet Torquato Tasso is the focus of the action.
Nathan the Wise. The Sultan Saladin and his Sister Sittah.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise. The action takes place during the Third Crusade (1189-1192) during a truce in Jerusalem. The work has as main topics the humanism and tolerance ideas of the Enlightenment.
Mary Stuart. Drama by Friedrich Schiller, 1800.
Mary Stuart is a classic drama by Friedrich Schiller. The tragedy was first performed at the Weimar Court Theater on June 14, 1800.
Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
Undine THE seas, the rivers and brooks contain the numberless tribes of Water-sprites. * * * * *
Charles the Fat encamped under the walls of Paris
Charles the Fat, Charles III, Carolingian Emperor encamped under the walls of Paris without daring to fight the Normans.