Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

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

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

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)

Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

A Bestiary of Loss

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

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