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Erasmus, in a copperplate engraving, 1526, by Albrecht
Dürer.

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Henry VIII, King of England, in a 1540 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

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"Lorenzo de' Medici among the artists", in a fresco, 1635, by Ottavio Vannini in the Camera degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

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A detail from François Dubois' contemporary painting of the Saint Bartholemew's Day Massacre on 23/24 August 1572, in which French Calvinists in Paris were killed on the occasion of Henri III's marriage to Margaret de Valois. The painting is now in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.

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Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria, from the Latin first edition of Columbus's accounts of his discovery of America, 1493.

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