EditorialLight shines on General Horatio Gates in the painting "Surrender of General Burgoyne" (1826) by John Trumbull as visitors tour the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, May 25, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialJapan: ‘Hakone Lake in Sagami Province'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830
EditorialThailand: King Rama III, Jessadabodindra (31 March 1787 – 2 April 1851), 3rd monarch of the Chakri Dynasty, Nangklao Monument by the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, Bangkok
EditorialJapan: ‘Sazai Hall - Temple of Five Hundred Rakan’. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830
EditorialJapan: 'Enoshima in Sagami Bay'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830
Editorial“Antislavery Medallion,” manufactured by the thousands around 1787 by the enterprising British potter Josiah Wedgwood, in the exhibition “Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 7, 2022. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
EditorialThe final painting on canvas of “The Death of Socrates” (1787), one of the most famous works of French neoclassicism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 15, 2022. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)