PCT4295711: Wood grave attributes to Jean Goujon in the French edition 1546 of “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili” (The Dream of Poliphila) by Francesco Colonna (1433-1527): reproduction of a fountain with a nurse (the water jets come out of her breasts) - the inscription in Greek Panton tokadi means “To the mother of everything”” - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4296011: Abbey church Saint-Austremoine (Saint Austremoine) of Issoire (Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne) - lapidary element of bedside decor: sign of the zodiac, the sagitaire - Romanesque art auvergnat - Romanesque sculpture - abbey church, Issoire, Puy-de-Dome, France, 12th century- Photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4296138: The Chateau d'Opme has Romagnat (63, Puy-de-Dome) which belonged to the Counts, then to the Dauphins d'Auvergne. Its primitive construction dates from the end of the 12th century, making it one of the oldest castles of Auvergne - garden a la francaise - Photo Patrice Cartier-, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294769: Bathers and sacred cows on the beach of Rameswaram (or Rameshwaram), a holy city of India at the extreme southern tip of Tamil Nadu, on the island of Pamban facing Sri Lanka. This city is famous for its Hindu temple of Ramanathaswamy, a place of pilgrimage for Vishnu and Shivaites (followers of Vishnu and Shiva) and for the Smarta Tradition. The pelerins abandon their old clothes to wake up new ones after a cleansing bath. Photo Jean-Marie Heraud -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
FAT4300089: Plate drawn from “” Armonia Astronomica et Geometrica, quattro trattati ne 'quali s'insegna la ragione, e formatione di tutti gli Horologi stabilii, e mobili ad ogni clima, et uso del Mondo, per nuovi, et brevi computi Astronomici; per via Geometrica; et anco per Pratica, con instromenti eccellentissimi”” by Theofilo (Theophile, Theophilus) Bruni, geometric monk and astronomer (1569-1638), Venice, imp. Giovanni and Varisco Varischi, 1622. / Bridgeman Images