Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art

Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

The Zodiac Man

On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1903 edition)

Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

The Four Elements and Temperaments from an Album of Prints after Maerten de Vos (ca. 1583)

The Comet Book (1587)

The Human Pyramids of Juste De Juste (ca. 1540)

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)

The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)

Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works

The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I (1515)

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath

The Human Alphabet

Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)

The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams