GRL3744801: View from the loggia of the Porta Nuova Tower on the city, Calatafimi Avenue and the hill of Monreale, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744803: View of the Porta Nuova Tower, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744804: View of the fresco in the interior of an hall, Torre di Porta Nuova, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744817: Porta Nuova Tower: detail of the side facing Vittorio Emanuele Avenue with female busts, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744820: The Gregorietti Room, detail of the decoration, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744821: North-East side: view of the Renaissance wing and the Pisan Tower from Parliament Square, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744827: Detail of the decoration depicting a nymph, The Red Room, The Royal Apartment, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744891: Detail with Judith and Holofernes, The Monetiere: wooden cabinet with an ebony veneer, and inlays in tortoise, red lacquers and gilded bronze; painted glass panels with biblical, mythological and allegorical scenes / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744914: The Maqueda Courtyard: statue, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744925: The Fountain Courtyard: view, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744934: Entrance hall to the Maqueda courtyard from the Parliament square: small carriage, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744964: The Montalto room: view, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744966: The Montalto wing, the dungeons: a flight of stairs below the Fountain Courtyard, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GRL3744968: The Montalto wing, the dungeons below the Fountain Courtyard, the Graffiti Room: detail representing a viking vessel, The Royal Palace or Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), Palermo, Sicily, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3740996: Minh Dang Quang buddhist temple. The Venerable Minh Dang Quang. Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3740999: Minh Dang Quang buddhist temple. Golden Buddha with lotus flower and buddhist monk. Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741007: A shop selling Buddhist offerings for the temples. Hell bank notes and other forms of joss paper. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741009: Incense sticks for buddhist ceremony. Lang Son. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741012: Sung Hung pagoda. Chinese dragon sculpture. Phu Quoc. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741021: Chua Ho Quoc pagoda. Tran Nhan Tong was the third emperor of the Tran dynasty. Phu Quoc. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741025: Huc Bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake at night. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741027: The Temple of the Jade Mountain ( Ngoc Son temple ). Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741031: Kim Co buddhist temple. Infant buddha statue. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741035: Tam Thanh cave. Thanh Thien taoist pagoda. Taoist deities. Lang Son. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741039: Tam Thanh cave. Thanh Thien taoist pagoda. Guardian statue. Lang Son. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741041: Chua Thanh buddhist temple. Buddhist ceremony. Offerings. Lang Son. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741042: Buddhist temple under construction. Lang Son. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741045: The Temple of Literature is Confucian temple which was formerly a center of learning in Hanoi. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741050: The Temple of Literature is Confucian temple which was formerly a center of learning in Hanoi. Altar of Confucius. Bronze phoenix and turtle. Close-up. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741055: The Temple of Literature is Confucian temple which was formerly a center of learning in Hanoi. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3741059: Ly Trieu Quoc Su Pagoda. Buddhist ceremony. Hanoi. Vietnam. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

CH3741227: A rare, early Helmholtz-pattern opthalmoscope, c.1852 (brass & ebony instrument with glass lenses in silk-lined leatherette case) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3742029: King on elephant, Railing crossbar from a stupa, Shunga, 2nd century B.C., Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India (carved sandstone) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3742030: Detail of the Bust of Vajra Tara, Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India, 10th century C.E. (stone) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3742031: Buddha in preaching pose, Pala, 11th century A.D., Eastern India (stone) / Bridgeman Images

GNG3742049: Students and teacher, India (photo) / Bridgeman Images