Alexander the Great riding in triumphal chariot driven by the winged Goddess of Victory Alexander the Great portrait Art nouveau illustration Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture ...

Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, located in northern Greece and adjacent countries. During his leadership, from 336–323 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the ...

He was introduced to Albacini by another famous art collector, Charles Townley. Blundell wrote about this bust in his ‘Account of the Statues, Busts etc. at Ince’: ‘There is something very grand and ...

Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His parents were Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympias. Alexander was educated by the philosopher Aristotle ...

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Immediate examples include the last Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, and the most famous of the Anglo-Saxon kings, Alfred the Great. In antiquity, no one stands taller than Alexander the Great ...

Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014; traveled to New York City, NY, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, ...

Following the premature death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, his generals, friends, and heirs engaged in forty years of wars over his empire. Lysimachus (reigned 323–281 BCE), one of Alexander’s ...

Alexander the Great visiting the tomb of Achilles. Credit: Flickr / Thomas Hawk CC BY-NC 2.0 Alexander the Great is best remembered for his dramatic conquests. However, another famous event in his ...