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 1500s

Allegory of Water (1500s)

Feast of St Gregory (1500s)

Flight from Samarkand (ca 1591)

Alchemist (1582)

16thc farming (ca 1541; Gerard Hourenbout?)

The Original Doubting Thomas (ca 1503)

Dulle Griet (Mad Meg; Pieter Bruegel I; 1562)

Wedding at Cana (detail; 1563)

Battle of Nicopolis (ca 1586)

Peasant wedding (detail;1568)

Morisco dancers (1529)

page from Splendor Solis (1582)

gorgeous atlas title page (1584)

Rabbit with plants & other creatures (1582)

Africa (detail; Vallard Atlas; ca 1547)

Sea Monsters and more (Sebastian Münster; 1552)

"Good Christians" burn Taino chief Hatuey at the stake

Look at the ceiling! (1516)

Charlemagne's victory over the Ajars (1518)

China, SE Asia & Oceania (Jan Huyghen van Linschoten; 1596)