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Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
Lotus, c. 1600 - 1625 from Zhengyen Hu [Ten Bamboos Studio] #China
(Rijksmuseum)
Wenceslaus Hollar, Elephant, monkey & flowers (University of Toronto)
Tableau of the Glorification of Agriculture, done for the entrance of Archduke Albert & Archduchess Isabella to #Antwerp in 1599. Jupiter surrounded by personifications of agriculture. At top Abundance feeds a multitude of children. A little dog does what it has to (Rijksmuseum)
Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, after Albrecht Dürer, 1596 - 1610.
(Rijksmuseum)
Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo
Ambrogio Giovanni Figino
1563-1608
(British Museum)
Gluttony from a set of The Seven Deadly Sins
c. 1550-1560 by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pilgrims for the Holy Year 1575, Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, in or after 1575 (Rijksmuseum)
The 'new' St Peter's rises up behind the 'old' here.
#Rome
El Greco, or Domenikos Theotokopoulos
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)