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DESIGN ELEMENT

Design image from Adoration of the Magi manuscript from 1400’s, Italy.

Giraudon/Superstock

MUSIC

Tenor Recorder

World Book

 

Explorers’ Bulletin Board

DESIGN ELEMENT

Astrolabe

The Granger Collection

PICTURE

Christopher Columbus, woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, frontpiece in The Columbus Gallery by Nestor Ponce de Leon, 1893;

Coat of arms

SCALA/Art Resource

DESIGN ELEMENT

Drawing of a ship

World Book Illustration

PICTURE

Scene of ship on the ocean in storm

World Book Illustration

PICTURE

Ship from Young Lo’s expedition

The Granger Collection

SOUND

Waves crashing

Sound Ideas

Siege of Constantinople

MAP

Map of Constantinople

World Book Map

PICTURE

Conquest of Constantinople

Werner Forman Archive/Art Resource

DESIGN ELEMENT

Various gems

World Book Illustrations

 

News from Africa

MAP

Map of African empires

World Book Map

PICTURE

Scene of people in Great Zimbabwe

World Book Illustration

PICTURE

Edo sculpture, male head late 15th C. Benin Kingdom, Nigeria.

© Aldo Tutino, Art Resource

 

The Trial of Joan of Arc

PICTURE AND DESIGN ELEMENT

Drawing of Joan in full armor with angels on her shoulder

The Granger Collection

Century 15 Realty

PICTURE

Stone castle of the Middle Ages

World Book Illustration

PICTURE

The Church of Sant’ Andrea in Mantua, Italy.

SCALA/EPA from Art Resource

SOUND

Drawbridge released

Sound Ideas

Fontenay Books

PICTURE

Gutenberg’s press

World Book Illustration

PICTURE

Medieval monks: Detail of a painting (1400’s) by Jean Mielot

Corbis-Bettman

DESIGN ELEMENT

The Resurrection of Jesus, Illuminated manuscript (early 1400's) by the Limbourg brothers from the Duc de Berry's Tres Riches Heures; Musee Conde, Chantilly, France

Giraudon/Art Resource