The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Columbus
Columbus was born on the date of August 26, 1405, in Genoa, Italy. He died on the date of May 20, 1506, in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus is mostly known for being the explorer that found America. Columbus is a father of two sons whose names are Diego Columbus, and Ferdinand Columbus. He created a quote that says "following the sunlight, we left the Old world
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Alonso was born in 1494, in Aldeacentenera, Spain. Alonso died in 1520, in Pánuco, Mexico. He was the first documented explorer in Texas. There is no evidence that he did ever leave Texas. The way he was killed was a battle against native Americans.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Francisco was born in 1510, in Salamanca, Spain. Francisco also died on the date of September 22, 1554, in Mexico City, Mexico. He is known for finding many landmarks in America one being the Grand Canyon. He was in a Spain military service from 1535 to 1554. He married a 12-year-old called Beatriz de Estrada.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
