Italian Renaissance sculptor to the Kings and Queens of England (that's his bust of King Henry VII above)
German portraitist who painted some of the seminal figures of the British Renaissance
An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England
Arguably the greatest artist who ever lived, part of the Holy Trinity of Italian Renaissance masters
One of the greatest painters of the early Renaissance was nothing if not a man of his times
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.