Images

A self-portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Baccio Bandinelli. c, 1530 CE. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

A detail of a relief showing the interior of a Renaissance sculptor's workshop by Nanni di Banco. c. 1416 CE. (Or San Michele, Florence)

A detail of a relief showing a Renaissance sculptor's workshop by Nanni di Banco. c. 1416 CE. (Or San Michele, Florence)

The Hunt painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). Painted c. 1460-1470 CE. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England)

A painted panel, one of three which together make up the Battle of San Romano by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). This panel, the second in the series, is an example of Uccello's concern with perspective painting...

A painted panel, one of six which together make up the Miracle of the Desecrated Host by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). This panel, the first in the series, is a triumph of Renaissance perspective painting...

Saint George & the Dragon, painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), created c. 1470. National Gallery, London.

The Jain symbol at Sonagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Sonagiri has scores of Jain temples dating from the 9th century CE onwards. There are a total of 103 temples with 77 on hill and 26 in the village. The place is considered sacred by devotees. Sonagiri...

Maison Descartes, the house where the philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) lived in the Netherlands. De Weteringschans, Amsterdam.

"Warriors Fight a Wolf and Giant Snake" by Ernst Alpers. The modern relief depicts the Norse god Thor battling the wolf Fenrir and Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent. Hannover, Germany. 1867 CE.