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Anonymous: Bestiary (Harley 4751) f.8r.; drawing of an elephant (13th century)

Gentile Bellini: Seated Scribe (1479-81)

Pedro Américo: The Battle of Avaí (1872-79)

William Etty: Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (1833)

Dirck van Baburen: Granida receives a drink of water from Daifilo (1623)

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend: diptych with Abner's Messenger before David and The Queen of Sheba (1480)

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt: Portrait of prince Philip William of Orange (1608)

Gerard de Lairesse: Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668)

Jacob Willemsz Delff II: Portrait of Willem Reyersz. de Langue and Daniël Fransz. van der Brugge (1648)

Paulus Constantijn la Fargue: The winding hole at Leidschendam (1756)

Lucas Gassel: Panoramic river landscape with Judah and Tamar (16th century)

Raphael: The Vision of a Knight (1504-1505)

Hans Rottenhammer: Diana and Actaeon (1596-1606)

Antonio Arias Fernández: Portrait of Charles V and Philip II (1639-40)

anonymous: The Holkham Bible Picture Book, f.40 - a battle scene (1327-1335)

Antonie Wierix (II): The seven sacraments (16th century)

Follower of Albrecht Dürer: The Holy Trinity in a Rosary (1515)

Heinrich Bünting: Clover Leaf Map (1581)

Michael Wolgemut: The Nuremberg chronicles; The map of the world (1493)

Katsushika Hokusai: Urashima Tarô Visits the Dragon Palace (1780s)

Follower of Jean-Marc Nattier: Portrait of the Duchesse de Chateauroux as Thalia (18th century)

Sultan Muhammad & Shah Mahmud Nishapuri: Khamsah of Nizami; the Israʾ and Miʿraj of Mohammed (1539–1543)

anonymous: Codex Gigas, f. 289–290 (13th century)

James Wilson Carmichael: The HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic (1847)

Anonymous: The miracle of Amersfoort (1525)

Bernardo Strozzi: The Old Coquette (1637)

Olaus Magnus: Carta marina (1539)

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Lot and his daughters (1528)

Anonymous: The Ayala Altarpiece (1396)

Arthur Hacker: The Temptation of Sir Percival (1894)

Antonio Mancini: Lost in Thought (1895-1898)

Anonymous: Portrait of Arent Franckensz van der Meer and Jacomina Claesdr van Ruyven (1550 - 1560)

Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder: Portrait of Jakob von Omphal and Elisabeth Bellinghausen (1538 - 1539)

Joos van Winghe: Apelles paints Campaspe (1600)

Peter Thys: Portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1650-1656)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables (1660-1665)

Anthony van Dyck: Portrait of Hendrik van den Bergh (1629-1632)

Alonso Sánchez Coello: Mystical allegory with Saint Sebastian, Saint Bernard and Saint Francis (1582)

Anonymous: King René's Tournament Book (1480-1488)

Albert Eckhout: The Tapuya Dance (1643)

Workshop of the master of Luccae: Christ Pantocrator surrounded by the Tetramorph, (13th century)

Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst: Portrait of Nicholaes Oetgens van Waveren (1656)

Andrés Sanchez Gallque: Three Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas (1599)

Jan Tengnagel: Banquet of 17 members of the archers' civic guard company of Captain Geurt van Beuningen (1613)

Anonymous: House altar with Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their three daughters (1351-1334 BC)

Anonymous: Statue of Akhenaten (1353-1336 BC)

Juan Bautista Maino: The Recovery of Bahía de Todos los Santos (1634-1635)

Jusepe de Ribera: The Martyrdom of Saint Philip (1638)