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Emperor Charles V with the Fuggers in Augsburg, 1530, (1936). Creator: Unknown

Emperor Charles V with the Fuggers in Augsburg, 1530, (1936). Kaiser Karl V. Bei Fugger in Augsburg, 1530'. German businessman, mining entrepreneur and banker Jakob Fugger (1459-1525) was influential in 16th-century politics. Here he burns papers in the fireplace, cancelling the debts of Spanish king Charles V (1500-1558). From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]

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A Studio Idyll: the Artists Wife and their Daughter Suzanne, 1885 (1945). Artist: Carl Larsson

A Studio Idyll: the Artist's Wife and their Daughter Suzanne, 1885 (1945). Swedish artist Carl Larsson (1853-1919) married Karin Bergoo (1859-1928), an artist and designer, in 1883. Suzanne, the eldest of their eight children, was born in 1884. Found in the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. A print from Konstnarsforbundets Historia I by Sixten Strombom, Stockholm, 1945

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Byzantine architecture and sculpture, (1898). Creator: Karl Schaupert

Byzantine architecture and sculpture, (1898). Fig 1: Capital from Agia Theotokos at Constantinople, late 9th century. Fig 2:Capital from S. Vitale at Ravenna. Fig 3: Lintel-decoration from Agia Theotokos at Constantinople. Fig 4: Chaptrel-cornice from the church of St. Nicolas at Myra. Fig 5: Pilaster-capital from Agia Sofia at Constantinople. Fig 6: Door-frame on the abbey-church at St. Denis, mid-12th century. Fig 7: Panel. Figs 8 and 9: Pillar-decoration from the cathedral at Bourges. Fig 10: Capital from the abbey-church at St. Benoit. Fig 11: Capital from the Barbarossa-palace at Gelnhausen. Fig 12: Arch-border from the church St. Amant de Boixe. Fig 13: Arch-border from the church at Gelnhausen, early 13th century. Fig 14: Console from the church at Gelnhausen, early 13th century. Fig 15: Decoration of a pillar-shaft from the church at Tournus, 12th century. Fig 16: Decoration of a pillar-shaft from cathedral at Chartres. Fig 17: From a door-frame from the former Benedictine-abbey-church at Ellwangen. Fig 18:Frieze in the interior of St. Walderich's chapel at Murrhardt. Figs 19 and 20: Arch-consols on the side-aisle of St. Sebald, Nuremberg. Fig 21: Key-stone-decoration in the same church. Fig 22: Key-stone-decoration from the cathedral at Bamberg'. Plate 34 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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