The Human Alphabet

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

The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

The Singerie: Monkeys acting as Humans in Art

The Difficulty of Ruling over a Diverse Nation (1578)

The Steps of Life

Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res

Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica

16th-Century Pattern Book for Scribes

The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema (1863)

16th-Century Ornament Prints

The Art of Dreams

America, a Personification (ca. 1590)

Hoefnagel’s Guide to Constructing the Letters (ca. 1595)

A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585)

Flowers of the Sky

The Art of Swimming (1587)

Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century

Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)