This painting by Delacrois was commissioned by Louis-Philippe, the last king of France. It shows a scene from the Fourth Crusade, wherein the Crusaders decide to sack the city of Constantinople instead of continuing on to invade the Muslin East and…
This terracotta sculpture depicts an apocryphal scene from the life of King Edward, in which his life was saved by his young wife, Eleanor, who sucked poison from his arm after Edward was stabbed by a would-be-assassin with a poisoned dagger during…