Images Dated 28th May 2010

Josef Stalin and the geophysicist Otto Y Schmidt, 1930s. Artist: Jakov Kalinichenko

Josef Stalin and the geophysicist Otto Y Schmidt, 1930s. An example of Soviet agitprop art. Otto Yulyevich Schmidt was a Russian scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman and academician. We was declared a Hero of the USSR in 1937 Found in the collection of the State Regional I Pozhalostin Art Museum, Ryazan, Russia

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Tarquinius and Lucretia, 16th or early 17th century. Artist: Jacopo Palma

Tarquinius and Lucretia, 16th or early 17th century. Sextus Tarquinius raping Lucretia, a married noblewoman. According to both Ovid and Livy, this act, and Lucretia's subsequent suicide, led to a popular uprising that overthrew the rule of Sextus Tarquinius father, Lucius Tarquinius Suberbus, the seventh and last king of Rome, and resulted in the establishment of the Roman Republic. The story is also told in Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece, published in 1594. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

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The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1730s. Artist: Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Younger

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1730s. According th Greek Mythology, Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. She was killed as a sacrifice after the death of Achilles, who had cofided in her the secret of his sole vulnerability, his heel. Polyxena passed the information on to her brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, who were able to kill Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a poisoned arrow. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

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