Images

"The Unicorn Rests in a Garden" is one of seven tapestries in the "Unicorn Tapestries" group. These allegorical tapestries depict the hunting of a unicorn, a mythological animal common to European folklore. "The Unicorn Rests in a Garden"...

A portrait of the Italian scholar and poet Petrarch (1304-1374 CE) by Justus of Ghent (d. 1480 CE). Created for the studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro in the ducal palace of Urbino, Italy. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino)

An artist's impression of a wedding in Renaissance Rome. From the game Old World.

A detail of The Madonna with Canon van der Paele painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). 1436 CE. (Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium)

Map of New France 1612 CE by Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635 CE). National Library of France.

A composite image showing five of the great Renaissance artists. Top left: Leonardo da Vinci Bottom left: Jan van Eyck Centre: Michelangelo Top right: Donatello Bottom right: Albrecht Dürer For original images, authors and copyright...

Portrait of Sallust, bust, face turned slightly to the left. Inscription: Lettered above the image with: "Primus Romana Crispus in Historia _ Mart." and below with title and "From an Antique Marble Bust Preserved in The / Farneze Palace...

Portion of leaf C4r (annotated and with early ms. sketch of a bird pecking at the eye of a man hanged on a gallows in left margin) from one of two editions of Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum (Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, after 1500 CE) Penn Libraries...

Artist's depiction of a Medieval army approaching a city under siege. From the game Old World.

Poster at the Baan Kudichin Museum in Bangkok showing the different foods and plants the Portuguese introduced to Thailand.