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 1500s

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)

Babur watching men altering the course of a stream (ca 1590)

Renaissance dairy farm (1555)

Solomon Takes Advice from the Animals (Sadiqi Beg; ca 1595)

The School of Athens (ca 1509; Raphael)

Dazu Rock Carvings: demons and officials of hell

Hunting Near Hartenfels Castle (Lucas Cranach I; 1540)

collecting plants in a monastery garden (1500s)

Scenes of Court: The Gallant Scene (ca 1500)

Battle of Merv (anonymous; 1510)

Palmanova, Italy: estab. in 1593 as a late Renaissance Star Fort

surgery lecture at the Barber-Surgeon's Hall (ca 1580)