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This painting from the Northern Renaissance is unique to the Italian Renaisssance in that it portays ordinary people in their ordinary lives. Many of the paintings by this artist depict peasants and food it some way, reminding us how important food…

This is a portrait of Erasmus, arguably the greatest humanist thinker. Erasmus was an international figure in his day who wrote widely about Aristotle and other ancient philosophers. As a humanist, he emphasized the humanities and a return to Ancient…

The artist made this sketch of a rhinoceros based on descriptions travelers gave. The artist himself had never seen one. This sketch represents the contact Europeans had with other lands from writings and the facinations that they had with it.