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) Map of Different World Cultures.
2) Unknown artist, John de Mandeville, 1459.
3) Cotton plant as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville; "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie."
4) Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram), Bay of Bengal, c. 7th cent AD.
5) Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram) viewed by Indian women.
6) Yakshi from Bharut, c. 100 BC, stone, 2.14 m, Indian Museum, Calcutta.
7) Female figure with a bird, Indian, early 9th century, sandstone, 81.5 cm, Royal Academy, Patna.
8) Front page of the Opticae Thesaurus, which included the first printed Latin translation of Alhazen's Book of Optics. The illustration incorporates many examples of optical phenomena including perspective effects, the rainbow, mirrors, and refraction.
9) Iraqi banknote with portrait of Alhazen.
10) Hevelius's Selenographia, showing Alhasenc] representing reason, and Galileo representing the senses, 1647, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
11) Unknown engraver, Francis Xavier (left), Ignatius of Loyola (right) and Christ at the upper centre. Below: Matteo Ricci (right) and Johann Adam Schall von Bell (left), all in dialogue towards the evangelization of China.
12) Puppet Show in a Tea House, hanging scroll, Japan, 18th century, National Museum, Warsaw.
13) Hiroshige, Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake, Hiroshige, 1857, one of the hundred famous views of Edo, Brooklyn Museum, New York.
14) Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, 1480, oil (19th-century repaint) on canvas, perhaps transferred from wood, 69.9 x 52.1 cms, National Gallery, London.
15) Sibilizade Ahmed, Sultan Mehmed II smelling a Rose, c. 1480, watercolour on paper, Tokapi Palace Museum, Istanbul.
16) Gentile Bellini, sketch of a Turkish painter, or scribe, 1479-80, pen and gouache on parchment, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
17) School of Veronese, Sultan Selim II, last quarter of sixteenth-century, oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
18) Nakkaş Osman, miniature of Sultan Selim II, from treatise on physiognomy, 1579, Tokapi Palace Museum, Istanbul.
19) Nakkas Osman, Consultation for the programme of the Şahname-ı Selim Han, with the scholars Şemseddin Ahmet Karabaği, Seyyid Lokman, the writer Ilyas Katib and the painters Nakkaş Osman and Ali, 1571–81 (folio 9r).
20) Nakkas Osman, Murder of Ma'sum Beg, the envoy of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, by Bedouin in the Hejaz, from the Şahname-ı Selim Han (folio 68a).
21) Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533, oil on oak, 207 x 209. 5 cms, National Gallery, London.
22) Detail: Scientific instruments.
23) Attributed to Jacopo di Barbari, Portrait of Luca Pacioli, c. 1495-1500, tempera on panel, 99 x 120 cms (39 x 47 inches), Capodimonte, Naples.
24) The first printed illustration of a rhombicuboctahedron, by Leonardo da Vinci, published in De divina proportione, 1509.
25) Dynamic slide of a rhombicuboctahedron.
26) Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript, second half 9th–mid-10th century, made in Tunisia, probably Qairawan, Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment, 11 15/16 x 15 13/16 in. (30.4 x 40.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum, New York.
27) Only known copy of the first printed Koran in Venice, 1537-1538.
28) Isola di San Michele, Venice.
29) Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript, late 8th–early 9th century, attributed to Syria, Yemen, or North Africa, Ink on parchment, H. 21 5/8 x 27 9/16 in. (55 x 70 cm).
30) Mappomondo Room, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
31) Simone Martini, Equestrian Portrait of Guidoriccio da Fogliano (west wall), c. 1330, Fresco, 340 x 968 cm, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
32) Detail: Guidoriccio da Fogliano.
33) Pietro Vesconte's Mappa Mundi from Marino Sanuto's Liber secretorum (oriented with East at the top), 1320-1321.
34) Image of a cartographer, assumed to be Pietro Vesconte himself, from the 1318 Vesconte atlas, Museo Correr, Venice.
35) Martyrdom of the Franciscans, 1324-27, Fresco, San Francesco,Siena.
36) Map of the Silk Roads.
37) Zhou Jichang, Lohan Demonstrating the Power of the Buddhist Sutras to Daoists, c 1178, as reproduced by Bernard Berenson with the caption “Chinese Painting of the Twelfth Century,” in Bernard Berenson, “A Sienese Painter in a Franciscan Legend,” Burlington Magazine, 1903, MFA, Boston.
38) Photograph of Berenson looking at art.
39) Hanging scroll of a bodhisattva (Avalokiteśvara or Kṣitigarbha) leading an elegant lady supported on clouds to the Pure Land, ink and colours on silk, British Museum, London.
40) Tawaraya Sōtatsu Waves at Matsushima, eighteenth century, six-panel folding, screen, MFA, Boston, Fenollosa-Weld, Collection.
41) Berenson’s “Buddha.” Head of Ananda, Javanese, sailendra dynasty (eighth– eleventh century), ca. 760–830, stone, probably from Candi Borobudur, magelang, Java, photograph taken for the Berensons by Harry Burton, ca. 1910.
42) Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Publicco, Good and Bad Government frescoes, 1338-1340.
43) Effects of Good Government on the City Life (detail), 1338-40, Fresco, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
44) Effects of Good Government on the City Life (detail), 1338-40, Fresco, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
45) Chinese porcelain found in renaissance Italy, 15th century, location unknown.
46) Blue-and-white faience albarello with Kufic-inspired designs, Tuscany, 2nd half of 15th century.
47) Effects of Good Government in the Countryside.
48) Securitas.
49) Hawking Party.
50) Detail.
51) Leonardo, Landscape drawing for Santa Maria della Neve on 5th August 1473, Pen and ink, 190 x 285 mm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
52) Huang Gongwang, The first part of the Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, titled The Remaining Mountain, 31.8 × 51.4 cm, Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou.
53) Att to the Emperor Huizong, Chinese Women making silk, remake of a lost original by Zhang Xuan, early 12th century, ink colour and gold on silk, 7.7 cm × 466 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
54) Masaccio, Madonna and Child, 1426, egg tempera on wood, 134.8 x 73.5 cms, National Gallery, London.
55) Detail showing Tiraz.
56) Tiraz fragment, late 9th or 10th century AD, att to Yemen, cotton, ink, and gold; plain weave, resist-dyed (ikat), painted Inscription: black ink and gold leaf; painted, Textile: L. 23 in. (58.4 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum, New York.
57) Tiraz fragment, 8th–9th century, attributed to Egypt, wool; tapestry weave, 8 in. (20.3 cm), W.12 in. (30.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum, New York.
58) Pseudo-Kufic script on the hem of the Virgin's mantle in Filippo Lippi's 1438 Pala Barbadori, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
59) Filippo Lippi, Barbadori Altarpiece, 1438, tempera on panel, 208 cm × 244 cm (82 in × 96 in) Musée du Louvre, Paris.