Firework Display, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome c.1768-1778
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A Lady in a Fur Wrap, 1577-1580 by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
“The knight, Cuer, clad in armour, stands in front of a mysterious black stone. Dawn is breaking, the sun has just risen behind a hedge on the horizon. The night before, Cuer had been unable to read the inscription on the stone. Now he reaches out with his left hand to decipher line after line the threatening message” c. 1457-65 from the Book of the Heart Seized by Love
Medieval illumination of Pliny writing in his study and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, c.1457-1458
MINIATURIST, English
York Psalter
c. 1170
Manuscript, 290 x 185 mm
University Library, Glasgow
Artwork describing Ezekiel 34:25 (“And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods”.
Unknown Italian artist
illustration of The Bible and its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius A. Bewer, published by Francis R. Niglutsch, New York, in 1908. vol. 8.
Card and Backgammon Players. Fight over Cards, Theodoor Rombouts, between 1620 and 1629
Chaucer at the Court of Edward III, Ford Madox Brown, 1851
St. John in the Desert, Domenico Veneziano, ca. 1445
Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652