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 1600s

curiosity cabinet (Ole Worm; 1655)

flowers, fruits & a destructive monkey (Frans Snijders; ca 1635)

History of Scipio #6: The arrival of Scipio in Africa (ca 1687)

The Harem at Topkapi Palace (last half of the 17thc)

illustration from Ovid's Metamorphosis (ca 1609-1632)

Outdoor Eating (ca 1620; Adriaen van de Venne)

Still Life with meat, fish, vegetables, and Fruit (1615-1620)

Mountain Landscape (ca 1625; Joos de Momper II)

a winter landscape (ca 1620; Joos_de_Momper)

Works of Mercy (1600s; Pieter-Brueghel the Younger)

stormy landscape with Philemon and Baucis (1620; Rubens)

Pitigliano, Italy

Africa (Abraham Ortelius 1603)

Cleopatra's Feast (Jacob Jordaens; 1653)

Burgdorf, Switzerland (1650)

Battle of Gravelines (August 8, 1558 as imagined in the 1600s)

Britannia frontispiece (1610;William Camden)

kitchen interior (ca 1615; Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck)

a 17th-century pastry shop (Abraham Bosse)

Whimsical image from a 17thc autograph bookk