Images

White Tara and Green Tara, distemper on cloth painting, 1450-1500, Guge, Western Tibet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hindu-Buddhist goddess Tara, 15-16th century. Ganga State Museum, Bikaner, India.

Statue of the goddess Tara. Bihar, 10th century. Indian Museum, Calcutta

Tarapith Temple, Birbhum district, India.

Famine, the third Horseman of the Apocalypse as depicted on the Apocalypse Tapestry, commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382. Musée de la Tapisserie, Château d'Angers, Angers

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, oil on canvas painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887. Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Moscow.

A detail of the Capture of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Cavadonga by the British ship HMS Centurion, a 1743 oil panting by Samuel Scott. (Royal Museum, Greenwich, London)

The Swedish galleon Vasa, built in the first quarter of the 17th century, sunk in 1628 and rescued in 1961. (Vasa Museum, Stockholm)

Inscribed circular stone base of a four-horse chariot dedicated by Cynisca of Sparta, winner of chariot races, made by Apelles of Megara, from Olympia, after 390-380 BCE. Archaeological Museum, Olympia.

The 1502 Cantino World Map, acquired by Alberto Cantino from a Portuguese original in Lisbon. The map shows the world as then known to Europeans and indicates the line decided by the 1494 treaty of Tordesillas which demarcated two spheres...