Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher

Evrard d'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)

The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)