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The author praying before Saint Michael at his arrival at Mont Saint-Michel, France.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Demons, France, Human types, Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Prayer, Religious practices, Saint Michael the Archangel, Travel, Weapons

The author praying before Saint James at his arrival at Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Galicia, Pilgrimages, Prayer, Prayer beads, Religious practices, Rosaries, Saint James, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Travel

Arrival of the author at Jerusalem. The author praying before the Crucified Christ.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Calvary Chapel (Jerusalem), Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Golgotha, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Prayer, Religious practices, Travel

The author praying before Saint Thomas at his alleged visit to the saint's shrine in Chennai, India.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Chennai, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, India, Religious practices, Rosaries, Saint Thomas, Travel

The author praying before Saint Catherine at his arrival at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Prayer, Prayer beads, Religious practices, Rosaries, Saint Catherine, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Travel

The author praying before Saint Peter at his arrival in Rome.

Tags: Allegories, Arnold von Harff, Author portraits, Basilica of Saint Peter (Rome), Churches, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Italy, Prayer, Religious practices, Rome, Rosaries, Saint Peter, Travel

Allegory of History.

Tags: Allegories

Frontispiece. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War.

Tags: Allegories, Frontispieces, Ottoman–Venetian Wars

Allegory of the evolution of human thought and science.

Tags: Allegories, Books, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dutch people, Ethnic groups, Philosophers, Scientific instruments, Social sphere and everyday life

Title page. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman war (1684–99).

Tags: Allegories, Ottoman–Venetian Wars, Title page

“Remember Marathon”; Ancient general Miltiades appears to a Turkish soldier and foretells the victory of the Greeks.

Tags: Allegories, Attica, Battle of Marathon (490 BCE), Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, History, Human types, Marathon, Miltiades, Philhellenism, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Turks

Title page. Allegory of Greece under Ottoman rule.

Tags: Allegories, Philhellenism, Title page, Weapons

Rendering of the lost painting of the Calumny of Apelles.

At the centre of the composition a man seated on a throne is surrounded by the figures of Ignorance(Ignorantia) and Suspicion (Suspicio). He is approached by Calumny (Calumnia), who is dragging with her a bedraggled man supposed to represent Envy…

Tags: Allegories, Andrea Mantegna, Apelles, Art and antiquities, Calumny of Apelles

Vatican Nile.

Tags: Allegories, Art and antiquities, Italy, Roman antiquities, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican Nile (statue)

Title page of the first voyage of the author.

Tags: Allegories, Mythology, Title page

Frontispiece. Portrait of the author, Hans Jacob Breuning, at the age of fifty-eight, surrounded by allegoric figures: Truth prevails over Slander and Envy.

Tags: Allegories, Author portraits, Frontispieces, Hans Jacob Breüning, Portraits

Title page. Allegoric representation of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

Tags: Allegories, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Title page, Weapons

Allegoric scene: War and Peace as female figures. At the center the emblem of the Lord of Pembroke, to whom Pococke dedicated his work.

Tags: Allegories, Coats of arms – Emblems, Frontispieces

Frontispiece. Composition of themes from Struys' voyages.

Tags: Allegories

Frontispiece with allegorical reprsentation of Motraye's voyages. Snapshots from his travel experiences in the background, subjects related to geography, antiquity and history in the foreground.

Tags: Allegories, Frontispieces

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