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 1500s

alchemy: you shall separate the subtle from the dense (1589)

food thought to fight the plague (1598)

Feast_of_the_Gods (Bellini and Titian; 1514-1529)

Baptism of Constantine (Giannfrancesco Penni; ca 1520)

Chitomatoc, where the Nahuatlaca tribes originated (1550)

Chiomara, Orgiagon & the Centurion's Head (1500s; Giolfino)

Distillation (1588; Jan van der Straet aka Stradanus)

The Calling of St John (Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen; ca 1531)

Sea Monsters (Sebastian_Munster; ca 1570)

Last judgment of Hu-Nefer (image from his tomb)

Battle for Goletta (1535 Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen)

Six Tuscan Poets (ca 1544; Giorgio Vasari)

antique houses on Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts

Seven Bowls of Wrath (ca 1531; Matthias Gerung)

Majnun in the desert with his mother and animals (1595)

Eliza ascending in a chariot of fire (1532; Lucas Cranach)

St Martin Being Knighted by Emperor Constantine (ca 1514)

Saint Giles and the Wounded Hind (ca 1500)

sea monsters (1539; detail; Olaus Magnus)

river fishing (1584; from a Pliny facsimile)