'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

Neptune calming the tempest which Aeolus raised against Aeneas' fleet from Book I of the Aeneid

Marcantonio Raimondi, After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Calumny of Apelles

Cornelis Cort, After Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari), Giovanni Orlandi

Orpheus and the Judgment of Paris

Nicoletto da Modena

Punitio Tirannorum, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"

Hendrick Goltzius

Charitas and the Acts of Charity, from a Series of Tazza Designs

Theodor de Bry

Plate 1: Roma and Batavia Shaking Hands, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

Antonio Tempesta, After Otto van Veen

Frontispiece, from Americae Retectio (The Discovery of America)

Adriaen Collaert

Rébus on the subject of love, a riddle depicted on drapery, below a landscape with a pyramid and two obelisks, a bust of a sphinx at bottom

Stefano della Bella

The World, Cage of Fools

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Antique Warriors and Mythological Subjects

Circle of Donato Creti

The World Turned Upside Down (Il Mondo alla Riversa)

Nicolò Nelli

The Forge of Vulcan

Johann Friedrich Greuter, After Giovanni Lanfranco