Traditional Europe

"Fight between Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych", by Viktor Mikhailovich (1918)

Bone Saddle from Bohemia (Central Europe) c.1400-1420 CE. This is one of about twenty known Medieval saddles decorated with bone plaques. The saddles vary somewhat in decoration, but certain motifs are common throughout. For instance, Saint George, standing over the defeated dragon, appears with elegant couples on most of the saddles. Used in parade, they were probably more ceremonial than utilitarian. The bone plaques used to create the saddle, probably from the pelvic bones of large animals such as cows, are attached to the core with bone pins and glue. The underside is lined with hide and birch bark. 📸 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The kiss of peace", 1869 - by Julia Margaret Cameron, English.

"The shrine to Saint Helena" in Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City.

Franz Stassen in front of one of the four tapestry designs intended for the assembly hall of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. 1936

“Who on Earth is so careless or lazy that he would not wish to learn how and under what form of government almost all of the inhabited world was conquered and became subject to the rule of Rome in less than 53 years.” —Polybius, Histories 1.1.5