Courtesy of the Library of Congress (image numbers follow in parenthesis): pages 142 (LC-USZ62–61365); 174 (LC-USZC4–2542); 176 (LC-USZ62–124397); 194 (LC-USZ6287246); 211 (LC-DIG-pga-02908); 228 (LCDIG- npcc-19612); 232 (LC-USZ62–14976); 237 (LC-DIG-ppmsca-08351); 239 (LCUSZ62- 7334); 240 (LC-USZ62–47039); 241 (LC-USZ62–5877); 242 (LC-USZ62–3854); 250 (LC-USZ62–5513); 251 (LC-USZ62–124560); 262 (LC-USZ62–104276); 271 (LC-DIGppmsca-07757); 277 (LC-DIG-ggbain-25495); 281 (LC-DIG-ggbain-30124); 283 (LC-DIGggbain-06493); 290 (LC-J601–302); 294 (LC-USZ62–96275); 297 (LC-USZ62–60242); 302 (LC-USW33–019093-C); 330 (LC-USZ62117122); 344 (LC-DIG-ppmsc-03265)
© Adoc-photos/Art Resource, NY: page 274
© akg-images: pages 300, 316, 321, 328
© akg-ullstein bild: pages 301, 310
© Alan King engraving/Alamy: page 102
© Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 85
© Araldo de Luca/CORBIS: page 78
© The Art Archive/Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs Paris/Alfredo Dagli Orti: page 48
© The Art Archive/Chopin Foundation Warsaw / Alfredo Dagli Orti: page 222
© The Art Archive/Culver Pictures: page 255
© The Art Archive/Karl Marx Museum Trier / Gianni Dagli Orti: page 254
© The Art Archive/Museo di Capodimonte, Naples/Gianni Dagli Orti: page 161
© The Art Archive/Musée du Château de Versailles/Gianni Dagli Orti: page 127
© The Art Archive/Museo de Arte Antiga Lisbon/Gianni Dagli Orti: page 134
© The Art Archive/Museum of London: page 138
© The Art Archive/National Archives Washington DC: page 193
© The Art Archive/Palazzo Barberini Rome/ Alfredo Dagli Orti: page 147
© Avico Ltd/Alamy: page 343
© Bettmann/CORBIS: pages 58, 64, 110, 153, 202, 205, 208, 217, 235, 268, 284, 289, 308, 315, 323, 326, 348, 349
© Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY: pages 128, 159
© British Library, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 97
© Chinese School/National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 109
© Chuck Nacke/Alamy: page 350
© Classic Image/Alamy: pages 25, 43, 103, 131, 190, 210
© Collection Kharbine-Tapabor, Paris, France/ The Bridgeman Art Library: page 278
© Diego Goldberg/Sygma/Corbis: page 360
© Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy/ The Bridgeman Art Library: page 125
© Getty Images: page 11
© The Granger Collection: pages 27, 55, 73, 148, 150, 155, 158, 162, 172, 186
© Harvard University/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 182
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images: page 336
© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS: pages 152, 335
© Interfoto/Alamy: pages 32, 60, 81, 196
© Istockphoto: pages 6, 10, 30, 37, 42, 57, 104, 173, 197, 199
© Karen Kasmauski/Science Faction/Corbis: page 353
© Ken Welsh/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 246
© Liba Taylor/CORBIS: page 363
© Louise Gubb/The Image Works: page 357
© Marion Kalter/AKG-Images/The Image Works: page 355
© Mary Evans Picture Library: pages 5, 21, 46, 51, 75, 95, 115, 116, 201, 256, 260, 276, 358
© Mary Evans Picture Library/EDWIN WALLACE: page 59
© Mimmo Jodice/Corbis: page 12
© Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone, France/ Roger-Viollet, Paris/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 53
© North Wind Picture Archives: pages 8, 52, 70, 106, 169, 179, 181, 192, 223
© Photo Researchers/Alamy: page 17
376 © The Print Collector/Alamy: page 29
© Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 306
© Private Collection/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 156
© Private Collection/Ken Welsh/The Bridgeman Art Library: page 120
© Private Collection/Peter Newark American Pictures/The Bridgeman Art Library: pages 272, 305
© Reuters/CORBIS: page 347
© Sandro Vannini/Corbis: page 68
© SCHOMBURG CENTER/Art Resource, NY: page 258
© Shutterstock: pages 35, 63
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