The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar (ca. 1621)
Depicting what was probably the most decisive moment of the Battle of Gibraltar, this remarkable painting by Dutch artist Cornelius Claesz van Wieringen, is also an…more
17th Century
Fortification Theory (1600)
Images from Jean Errard’s Fortification Réduicte Art and Démonstrée (Paris, 1600), a seminal work in fortification theory. Errard (1554-1610) was a mathematici…more