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...

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...

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...

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.