This experimental Gallery is devoted to relevant images of the European models to whom Shakespeare is indebted for essential elements of his plays: plots, characters, ideas. They include Ovid, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, Lope de Vega, etc. Their influence served to define many of the principal elements of Elizabethan culture as well as stage effects in its drama. Several of the illustrations and descriptions are derived from the UCB Shakespeare Program collection, photographed by Velma Bourgeois Richmond, and are available for educational purposes only. Others are more generally available from the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (Wikipedia).