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Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

April 26, 2024

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A painting depicting the conquest of the Incan Empire by Francisco Pizarro. ...

The Aztec people before European expansion

April 26, 2024

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A mural demonstrating the Exploitation of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadors by Diego Rivera, the work is titled "Le peuple aztèque". ...

Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam

April 26, 2024

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Calvinism has been known at times for its simple, unadorned churches and lifestyles, as depicted in this painting of the interior of the Oude kerk in Amsterdam (south nave), by Emanuel de Witte. ...

Savonarola and his execution

April 26, 2024

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Hanging and burning of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria in Florence in 1498. This is a 17th-century copy of a contemporary original attributed to Francesco Rosselli. In a contemporary copy from Perugia, the scroll held by angels bears ...

Junius Brutus Stearns, George Washington at his Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia (1851)

April 26, 2024

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This painting titled "Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon", 1851, is part of a series on George Washington by Junius Brutus Stearns. It demonstrates the colonies in expansion in the 18th century. ...

Charles William Jefferys, The battle in Quebec city in 1775 (1916)

April 26, 2024

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This painting demonstrating the invasion of Canada, by Charles William Jefferys, is titled "Arnold's column is shattered in fierce street fighting during the Battle of Quebec." This painting can be used to locate time and space, answering the questi...

Mi’kmaq wigwam, 1914

April 24, 2024

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A painting of a Mi'kmaq dwelling called a wigwam. ...

Three Montagnais, Wigwams, Murray Bay

April 24, 2024

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A painting of an Algonquian dwelling called a Wigwam. ...

Le Paradis, Esquisse pour la voûte de l’église de Saint-Sauveur, Québec by Charles Huot

April 24, 2024

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Charles Huot installed an extensive mural painting program in Saint-Saveur Church in Quebec City. ...

War Fears : Bush Farm near Chatham

April 24, 2024

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An Ontario bush farm in 1838. The tree stumps have not yet rotted enough to be removed. "Besides the destruction of lives, the burning of houses, the plunder of cattle, and all other species of moveable property, it [war] would throw back the state ...