William the Silent, Prince of Orange and founder of Leiden University

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, part of the triumvirate that installed William I as King of the Netherlands

The Academy Building

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), legal scholar seen as one of the fathers of international law; alumnus of Leiden University

"Je Maintiendrai" ("I shall maintain"), the motto of the Dutch royal family and of the Netherlands

The coat of arms of the Netherlands

"Haec libertatis ergo" ("This because of liberty"), the motto of the city of Leiden

A Napoleonic-era French soldier

A 16th-century Spanish soldier

The personal coat of arms of William the Silent

The coat of arms of the city of Leiden

Janus Dousa (1545-1604), commander of the city garrison during the Spanish siege of Leiden (1574); later curator and librarian of the university

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798-1872), professor of constitutional law at Leiden University and three-time prime minister of the Netherlands; generally seen as the "father" of the 1848 Constitution

Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874-1933), professor of the constitutional law of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) and international law

Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), professor of history at Leiden University, best known as the author of "The Waning of the Middle Ages" (1919)

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), professor of theoretical physics at Leiden University, awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-discovery of the Zeeman Effect

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), professor of Arabic languages at Leiden University