CONTENTS
  

 Western Civilization PicturePack

Collection H:
The Beginnings of the
Nation State, 1600-1715
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
     

PicturePack WCH01: 17th Century French & English Rulers ● Louis XIII, King of France from 1610 to1643 ● Cardinal Richelieu ● A second image of Cardinal Richelieu ● The siege of La Rochelle, 1627-1628 ● The Château de Cheverny in the Loire Valley ● Louis XIV of France, who ruled from 1643 to 1715 ● Jules Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661) ● The Palace of Versailles, built by Louis XIV ● The Garden Front of Versailles, 1668-1685 ● The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles ● The chapel in the Palace of Versailles ● The chapel ceiling in the Palace of Versailles ● James I, the first Stuart king of England ● The sword of Henry, Prince of Wales, 1611 ● London in 1620, with the original London Bridge ● An altarpiece at Somerset House, by Inigo Jones ● Charles I of England and Henrietta of France ● Thomas Wentworth, who was sentenced to death. ● The battle of Naseby, 1645 ● The trial of Charles I, 1648 ● The execution of Charles I, 1649 ● The chaos resulting from Charles I’s execution ● Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Long Parliament ● The coronation of Charles II, 1661 ● Frontispiece of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes ● The Great Fire of London, 1666 ● The new St. Paul's Cathedral, London ● The apse within St. Paul's Cathedral, London ● Interior of St. Mary-le-Bow, London ● The Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England ● James II burns the order to convene Parliament ● Mary II of England ● Queen Anne of England ● Vatican monument to the Stuart pretenders ● The Bank of England, founded in 1694 ● The Bank of Scotland money chest ● Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire ● The rear façade of Blenheim Palace ● The lake and Grand Bridge at Blenheim Palace ● The Great Hall, or entry hall, of Blenheim Palace ● The Green Writing-Room in Blenheim Palace ● The formal dining room in Blenheim Palace ● The third State Room of Blenheim Palace ● The Long Library of Blenheim Palace  
 

PicturePack WCH02: European Conflict, 1618-1715 ● Philip III of Spain (1578-1621) ● Córdoba, Spain, ca. 1600 ● The Royal Palace at Madrid ● Spanish royal carriage in procession ● A scene of daily life on the canals of Amsterdam ● A Dutch windmill at Vollendam, Holland ● A 17th-century Dutch warship ● The old center of Bruges, Belgium ● Cambrai, Flanders, ca. 1600 ● A detail of a Flemish town, 16th century ● Façades of merchant houses along a canal in Ghent ● A pikeman, 1649 ● Initiation of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) ● The scene of a peasant revolt in 1626 ● The assassination of Wallenstein ● Gustavus II Adolphus (1594-1632) ● The capture of Magdeburg, May 20, 1631 ● The siege of Leipzig, 1642 ● Bavarians vs. French in the Thirty Years' War ● The siege of Tarragona, 1644 ● A man is broken on the wheel ● The Thirty Years' War: the final phase ● Map: Europe after the Thirty Years’ War, 1648 ● The Battle of the Dardanelles, 1646 ● Dutch squadron versus English, August 1652 ● Dutch vs. English, February 1653 ● The Battle off Copenhagen, 1658 ● Dutch capture the British Royal Charles ● The Dutch in the Medway, 1667 ● Signing of the Peace of Breda, 1667 ● Pope Clement IX, ruled 1600-1669 ● A cartoon on Spain's 1678 loss of Ghent to France ● France and Austria battle the Turks, 1664 ● Sobieski defeats the Turks at Vienna, 1683 ● The French bombarding Genoa, 1684 ● The Battle of La Hogue, May 1692 ● A cartoon lampooning Louis XIV's ambitions ● The British capture Gibraltar, 1704 ● Map: Europe in 1715   
 

PicturePack WCH03: Colonization by European Countries, 1534-1670  ● The city of Surat on the west coast of India ● The King of the Congo receives Dutch ambassador ● Dutch take the Island of Mannar, off Ceylon ● The English fort at Bombay, India, 1672 ● The Dutch torture and kill Portuguese enemies ● Entry of the Dutch into Cochin, India, 1663 ● Batavia (now Jakarta), on the island of Java ● The Dutch settlement at Batavia ● A Dutch assault on the city of Quemoy, 1663-1664 ● The Americas as depicted by the English in 1670 ● The French Fort Caroline in Florida ● A 1657 French map of Florida ● Champlain attacks an Iroquois fortified town ● Champlain’s château at Quebec ● Champlain’s 1612 map of New France. ● Sir Walter Raleigh ● Map: Colonial Atlantic trade routes    
 

PicturePack WCH04: Religion, 1600-1715 ● Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) ● 17th-century French cartoon on Catholic dissent ● Puritan woman's dress in 17th-century England ● Baptism, 1645 ● John Wesley, founder of Methodism ● John Wesley's new church in City Road, London ● St. Paul's, Birmingham, England ● Interior of St. Mary's Church, Whitby, England ● Box-pews in St. Mary's Church at Whitby, England ● An 18th-century anti-Semitic cartoon ● A silver Hanukkah menorah, 18th century ● The Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey ● The façade of Il Gesú in Rome ● Trompe l'Oeil ceiling in San' Ignazio ● The church of San Andrea al Quirinale, Rome ● Interior of San Andrea al Quirinale, Rome ● The church of St. Charles Borromeo in Austria ● Cupola interior, St. Charles church, Vienna ● Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758)     
 

PicturePack WCH05: Science, 1600-1715 ● William Harvey (1578-1657), British physician ● Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ● The great names of astronomy ● Some sunspots observed by Galileo in 1607-1608 ● Details on moon’s surface observed by Galileo ● Johann Kepler's (1570-1630) music of the spheres ● The Royal Greenwich Observatory, built 1676 ● Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632- 1723) ● An early microscope ● Otto von Guericke ● Von Guericke’s experiment with vacuum pump ● "The Flying Ship," 1709 ● "The Man in the Moon," by Francis Godwin, 1638 ● A water mill ● A water clock   
  

PicturePack WCH06: Life, Literature, Music & Art in the 17th Century ● Paris in 1607 ● Gentleman's attire, 17th-century France ● 17th-century townhouses in Magdeburg ● Fire fighting in Nuremberg, 1658 ● A 17th-century sedan chair ● A family of 17th-century beggars ● Stocks on the Commons of Lower Slaughter, England ● The pillory at Charing Cross, London, 1811 ● A witch, with bats and other creatures ● Almshouse in Stamford, England ● A 17th-century English farmhouse ● A 17th-century school for boys ● The King's Head Inn in Chester, England ● A peasant's two-wheeled cart, 17th century ● John Locke, philosopher and political theorist ● John Milton (1608-1674) ● An illustration from Pilgrim's Progress ● Characters in the Red Bull Playhouse, London ● Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) ● The composer Claudio Monteverdi ● Henry Purcell (ca.1659-1695) ● Antonio Stradivarius ● Antonio Stradivarius at work ● A Stradivarius violin ● Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple ● The courtyard of El Greco's house in Spain ● "The Burial of Christ," by Caravaggio ● "Self portrait," by Peter Paul Rubens