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Medieval diving suit. Detail from the Ms.Thott.290.2º. The Ms.Thott.290.2º is a fencing manual written in 1459 by Hans Talhoffer for his own personal reference and illustrated by Michel Rotwyler.

Charioteers with colours of the four factions in mosaics of the third century AD. From the floor of a villa at Baccano. Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alie Terme, Rome, Italy.

Resurrection of the dead. Ottheinrich Bible, Regensburg ca. 1430. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010, fol. 39v.

Fra Angelico - The Mocking of Christ. Detail of Convent of San Marco fresco, 1440-42.

Theodor de Bry, America, Natives dancing round a circle, 1590.

A Roman mosaic showing fish, fowl, dates, vegetables and seafood. 2nd cent. A.D. From a villa at Tor Marancia.

William Heath Robinson, illustration for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1914.

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

The Oracle* by Giles Ketting.

*a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Octopus, Animali, vol 4,16th century. Watercolor. Universita di Bologna.