Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, but just taking Java on its own, it would be the foruth most populous country in the world.

Of course, Java is only one part of Indonesia, but the population of this island compared to that of the world is one indication of the demographic heft that Indonesia has.

Istanbul

On July 24, 1860 Alfons Mucha, aka Alphonse Mucha, was born. Although
Czech, he spent most of his career in Paris, where he was a painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. He was a leader in the style now most commonly known in English as Art Nouveau.

N. B. His surname is pronounced [ˈmuxa]

On July 21, 1910, Vladimir Alexandrovich Serov  was born. Although not very well known, certainly not outside Russia, he was an important painter of patriotic, revolutionary, and Soviet themes during the middle of the 20th century.
Here, from Wikipedia, is Winter Palace Taken (1954). Somewhat

On July 12, 1730, Josiah Wedgewood was born. He went on to become a potter, a business person, and a prominent abolitionist. In 1787, he created a medallion of this design to promote The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In recent years, it has sometimes been criticized for the

person.
Almost all of his important works are held in Poland, so in practice the only way to see them is to actually travel there. A visit well worth the time and the cost.

Here are the names of the three paintings shared here.

1. The Prussian Homage

Divided and absorbed in the late 18th century by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, so the country no longer existed. Open Polish nationalism was a crime, so he had to be careful.

Sadly, the magnificence of his large works does not come across at all in small images. They really have to be seen in

On June 24th, 1838, Jan Matejko was born. Although he was only 1/5 Polish, he went on to become the most important Polish artist of the 19th century. His most common themes had to do with Polish history and culture, and there was generally a crypto-nationalist current in his works. Poland had been

May 5 is not only St George's Day but also the birthday, in 1405, of Gjergj Kastrioti, known as Skanderbeg or the Dragon of the Albanians. His given name is the Albanian version of George. Here is his actual helmet, which is in Vienna not in Albania. He fought for the independence of Albania from

On March 17, 1941, the National Gallery of Art opened to the public in Washington, DC. This might be my favorite work of art in the entire museum: "Portrait of a Lady" (c. 1460) by Rogier van der Weyden. It's sad that for something so beautiful we know nothing about the woman shown here.

I think

And being prescribed by a physician actually means nothing. We already knew this, but saw a fantastic example of it with Harold Bornstein, the bonkers bonzo gonzo finger-in-the-electric-socket hair physician of DDT in December 2015.

On December 24th, 1968, William Anders took this photo, which has since been called Earthrise. He was in the Apollo VII capsule, the first human mission to orbit the moon. As they never landed on the moon, this photo was taken from space, not from the surface of the moon.
Because the moon is

This is just one example. I don't have any others on my phone right now, but I can share more tomorrow. Many shops make it quite explicit what parts of the world they specialize in.