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Interesting subjects, themes, groups of people, places and events which shaped the course of history and give scope for our photographs

 

THE MEDICI

THE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH

CISTERCIANS AND THEIR ABBEYS

TRAVELLERS, TRADERS AND EXPLORERS

OTTOMAN ISTANBUL AND SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

BYZANTINE CONSTANTINOPLE

THE 100 YEARS WAR

CONDOTTIERI AND THE GREAT EQUESTRIAN STATUES AND PAINTINGS

1500 - CHARLES V, HENRY VIII, FRANCIS I, J FUGGER, M LUTHER, CLEMENT VII, SULEIMAN - 1550

THE MONGOL CONQUERORS (Khans: Ghengis, Kublai, Hulagu and Tamerlane)

THE INDIAN MUGHAL EMPERORS (including Akbar and Shah Jahan, and the Taj Mahal)

THE CRUSADES

WORLD WAR II IN ITALY

 

 

TRAVELLERS, TRADERS AND EXPLORERS

 

Genghis Khan,   Ilkhan HeleguPrester John,  John of Plano Carpini,  William of Rubruck,  Marco Polo,   Friar Odoric,   Jacob d'Ancona,   Ibn Battuta,   Sir John Mandeville,   Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli ,   John Cabot,  Christopher Columbus,  Amerigo Vespucci,  Vasco da Gama,  Ferdinand Magellan,  Giovanni da Verrazzano,  Sir Frances Drake

 

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War in Italy 1943 - 1945

The unknown part of WW II

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The Topkapi Palace & Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Istanbul

at the Peak of the Ottoman Empire

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The Medici Family

 

Books

The Glorious 1400s

La Capella dei Magi

The Grand Dukes

The Medici in Siena

Cistercians and their Abbeys

 

The Master Abbey Builders of the 11 and 12 Hundreds

 

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THE CRUSADES

 

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The 100 Years War

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Condottieri

and the

Great Equestrian Statues and Paintings

of the Renaissance

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Constantinople,

Emperor Justinian

and the

Byzantine Empire

 

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1500 - 1550

An Emperor, two Kings, a Banker, a Priest, a Pope and a Sultan kick off the Age of European Nation States

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The Indian Mughal Emperors

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PLUS, THE TAJ MAHAL

The Mongol Conquerers

 

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