Sea Monster Attacking a Boat During a Spectacle in a Marine Enclosure at Ostia, plate 85 from 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium Of Hunting Wild Beasts, Birds, Fish engraved by Jan Collaert 1566-1628 published by Phillipus Gallaeus of Amsterdam -
Jan van der (Joannes Stradanus) Straet
The Inferno, Canto 12, lines 38-39: One cried from far: Say to what pain ye come Condemnd, who down this steep have journied? -
Gustave Dore
Archimedes c.287-12 BC saying Give me a support with a lever and I will raise the earth, Stanzio della Mattematica, 1587-1609 -
Giulio Parigi
St John the Evangelist on the Island of Patmos -
Jean Colombe
The Battle of Barbagianni from the ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento, 1565 -
Giorgio Vasari
Siege de la Colonne de Pompee or Science in the Pillory 2 -
James Gillray
He sees a winding staircase, reaching from Earth to Heaven, brilliant with glory -
Charles Edmund Brock
Satirical cartoon depicting the Fall of Icarus with reference to the Exchequer -
James Gillray
Ein Genius Serviert Ein Kleines Fruhstuck -
Paul Klee
Study of the Human Figure, Posterior View, from A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl, c.1795-1806 3 -
George Stubbs
Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl -
Garofalo
Frieze from the Camera con Fregio di Amorini Chamber of the Cupid Frieze detail of two cupids, one black, playing with rabbits, 1520s -
Giulio Romano (Orbetto)
El Beato Juan de Ribera en la expulsión de los moriscos (The Blessed Juan de Ribera in the Expulsion of the Moors) -
Francisco Domingo Marques
Canal abandonado. Vriesland (Holanda) (Abandoned Canal. Vriesland (Holland)) -
Carlos de Haes