Castle of Thurnberg is the most perfect of all the Rhenish castles. In sublimity of character, the feudal palace of Thurnberg is unequalled.
Castle of Thurnberg. Called also “The Mouse”.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
German Fashion between 1560 and 1590
German Renaissance fashion. Noblewoman, Noblemen. Citizen, Balladeer, Standard-bearer.
Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England.
Ely Cathedral is considered a masterpiece of medieval architecture.
Portrait of a Lady by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Portrait of a Lady forms the type of feminine beauty which Fragonard seems to have admired particularly.
Castel Del Monte, built by Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
The Castel del Monte is a building from the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) in Apulia in south-eastern Italy.
The Reculvers, Herne Bay, Kent, England.
Reculver was a village – now a deserted village – about five kilometres east of Herne Bay in the English county of Kent.
Cologne, on the Rhine, Germany 19th c..
Cologne, viewed from the water, appears with more of ancient majesty than from any other point.
Norman knight (Varangian) in chain mail. 11th century.
Varangian reconstructed from the embroideries of the Bayeux Tapestry and contemporaneous original weapons.
Arch of Trajan on the mole at Ancona.
This Arch was a tribute of gratitude to the Emperor Trajan, and was erected in the year 115 A. D.
The Clan of Graham. Tartan.
Few families, says Sir Walter Scott, can boast of more historical renown than that of Graham.