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Jan van der Heyden, Still Life with Rarities, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Szpmvszti Muzeum, Budapest |
The Dragon of Bologna preserved by Aldrovandi in 1572, engraving, from Ulisse Aldrovandi, Serpentum et draconum historiae; reproduced by kind permission of New York Academy of Medicine |
The Musaeum Ferrante Imperato, engraving, from Ferrante Imperanto, Dell historia naturale; reproduced by kind permission of the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Vittore Carpaccio, The Vision of St Augustine, tempera on canvas, detail, Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice |
Jan Breughel the Elder, Still Life with Blue Jug, oil on canvas, detail; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
J. G. Haintz, Collectors Cabinet, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum |
L. Vincent, Wondertooneel der Nature, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum |
Hans Leinberger, Death Figurine; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Philipp Hainhofer, Kunstschrank of Gustavus Adolphus; reproduced by kind permission of the Museum of the University of Uppsala |
Museum of Francesco Calceolari, engraving, from Calceolari, Francesco, Musaeum Calceolarium, Verona, 1622; reproduced by kind permission of the Bibliothque Nationale de France |
Clement Kicklinger, ostrich goblet; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Choppenes, for Laydes from Malta John Tradescants Catalogue entry, 1656; reproduced by kind permission of the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Jan van Neck, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Frederik Ruysch, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum |
Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dissection in the Leiden Theatrum Anatomicum, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Wellcome Institute, London |
The Leiden Theatrum Anatomicum with Anatomical Figures, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden |
Two putti vivisecting a dog, engraving, from William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford, 1698; reproduced by kind permission of the Fellows of Merton College, Oxford |
Siegfried Albinus, corch by Rhinoceros, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Wellcome Institute, London |
Anatomical tableau by Frederik Ruysch, engraving, from Frederik Ruysch, Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria, Amsterdam, 1691; reproduced by kind permission of the New York Academy of Medicine |
Peter the Great in wax, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, photo: Gitta Hammarberg; reproduced by kind permission of Gitta Hammarberg |
Teeth pulled by Peter, Kunstkamera, St Petersburg, photo: Rosamond Wolff Purcell; reproduced by kind permission of Rosamond Wolff Purcell |
The ghost of a butterfly a survivor from Hans Sloanes Collection, Natural History Museum, London, photo: Philipp Blom |
Andromeda, plant and legend, drawing by Linnaeus, the Linnaean Society, London; reproduced by kind permission of the Linnaean Society, London |
Charles Willson Peale, The Exhumation of the Mastodon, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Maryland Historical Society Museum, Baltimore |
Charles Willson Peale, Rachel Weeping, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
Skulls and plaster casts in the Gall Collection, Baden, Austria, photo: Philipp Blom |
Angelo Solimans head, plaster cast, Gall Collection, Baden, Austria, photo: Philipp Blom |
Angelo Soliman, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna |
Plan of the Narrenturm in Vienna, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna |
Maria-Theresia Platz and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Authors Collection |
Benjamin Zix, Vivant-Denon in the Louvre, pencil on paper, Muse du Louvre, Paris; reproduced by kind permission of the Runion des Muses Nationaux, photo: RMN Jean Schormans |
Pierpont Morgans nose, photo: Edward Streichen |
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (attributed), Napoleon on His Deathbed, oil on canvas, Chteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Prau; reproduced by kind permission of Runion des Muses Nationaux, photo: RMN M. Bellot |
Reliquary of St Louis, from Michel Flibien, Histoire de labbaye royale de Saint-Denys-en-France, plate V; reproduced by kind permission of Muse du Louvre, Paris |
Head of St John, Amiens Cathedral; reproduced by kind permission of Conservation des Antiquits et Objets dart de la Somme |
Reliquary of St Ursula, St Ursula, Cologne; reproduced by kind permission of Rheinischer Verein fr Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz |
Vincenzo Bellinis apotheosis, photo: Donatella Polizzi Piazza; reproduced by kind permission of Museo Civico Belliniano, Catania |
Vincienzo Bellinis corpse after its disinterment, photo: Donatella Polizzi Piazza; reproduced by kind permission of Museo Civico Belliniano, Catania |
Peter Paul Rubens, Medusa, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Three flying ducks, James Lowe Collection; reproduced by kind permission of Flying Duck Enterprises |
Pastoral idyll, nineteenth-century postcard, Authors Collection |
Milk bottle tops, Oliver Ogden Collection; reproduced by kind permission of Oliver Ogden, Silver Spring, USA |
Fludd, Utrisque Cosmi, frontispiece, Merton College Library, Oxford; reproduced by kind permission of the Fellows of Merton College, Oxford |
Thomas Brownes skull, photo: James Eason; reproduced by kind permission of James Eason |
Albrecht Drer, The Book Fool, woodcut; reproduced by kind permission of the sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna |
Honor Daumier, The Connoisseur, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Art Institute of Chicago |