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Diaboli partus superbia / Hoovaardije des Duyvels broersel (detail) by an anonymous artist, after Maerten de Vos, 1600-1624.

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The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow (details) by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 1850.

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The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow (detail) by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 1850.

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Shaving the fool (detail) by an anonymous artist, 1570-1600.

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Frontispiece with a fantasy representation of the Via Appia Antica (details) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756-1757.

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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

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The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck, 1440–41.

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Illustration from “Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme furent acheuees le xvii. iour de Auril. Lan .M.CCCC.iiii.xx. et xvii. pour Simon vostre Libraire demoura[n]t a la rue neueu a lenseigne sainct Jehan leuangeliste”,  1496.

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Leafs from a calendar, late 1540s-early 1550s.

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Photo reproduction of (presumably) a painting of a girl with a Jan Klaassen doll, anonymous artist, c. 1860-1870.

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Parisian Masquerades (details) by Johan Noman, 1816. 

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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

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Miniature of the Second Vial: the sea turns to blood, with a boat capsizing and people drowning (Revelation XVI: 3).

Illustration from Apocalypse (Revelation) in parallel Latin and French (the ‘Val-Dieu’ Apocalypse), c. 1320-1330.

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Miniature of Gideon and his men from a book of Bible history, 15th century. 

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The evening school / De avondschool (detail) by George Gillis Haanen, 1835.

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A masked woman carried by the hand of a masked man with a torch / Een gemaskerde vrouw aan de hand meegevoerd door een gemaskerde man met een fakkel, (details) from the workshop of Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1595-1596.

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Landscape with Two Oaks (detail) by Jan van Goyen, 1641.

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Detail of a miniature of the dragon constellation (‘Draco’), in tables from Ptolemy’s Almagest. 

From “Amalgest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies” by John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti & Plato of Tivoli, 1490. 

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Allegorical warning against masturbation by David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, 1801. 

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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

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Glorification of Commerce and Science (detail) by an anonymous artist, c. 1625-1649.

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Illustrations from “Drawing made easy: a helpful book for young artists; the way to begin and finish your sketches, clearly shown step” by Edwin George Lutz, 1868.

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Warrior with lance and shield / Krijgsman met lans en schild by Joannes Echarius Carolus Alberti, 1808. 

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1.Miniature of a centaur, 2. Miniature of a cuttle-fish, 3. Miniature of a porcupine, 4. Miniature of a unicorn. 

From “De natura animalium”, c. 1550-1569.

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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

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Soap Bubbles by Jean Siméon Chardin, 1733–34.

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Underrated creatures from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1490-1510. 

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Detail of a miniature of Hero leaping from the battlements of a castle to drown with her lover Leander, in ‘L'Épître Othéa’. 

From “The Book of the Queen” by Christine de Pizan, c. 1410-c. 1414.

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De avondschool / The evening school (detail) by George Gillis Haanen, 1835.

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Hatching babies from Satire on celibacy (details) by an anonymous artist, c. 1600-1649. 

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