Images

Moses, Gideon, Elijah, and Samuel by il Baciccio. Pendentive of the dome of the Gesù, Rome.

The prophet Gideon with the roll of fleece in his hands as depicted on a Greek Catholic icon in the 18th century. Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary.

Adoration of the Magi, distemper on canvas painting by Andrea Mantegna, c. 1495-1505. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793), oil on canvas painting by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, formerly attributed to Antoine-François Callet, c 1774-1776. Palace of Versailles.

Page 66 of the 9th-10th-century manuscript of Codex 169(468), containing works by Isidore, Hucbaldus and Bernoldus as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus, copied at various times in Italy and Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Einsiedeln.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ, oil on panel painting by Pietro Perugino, 1495. Uffizi, Florence.

Jacob wrestling with an angel or God. Palantine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily

Jacob's Dream at Bethel, fresco by Raphael (1483-1520). Vatican Palace.

Esau & Jacob on Lorenzo Ghiberti's Doors of Paradise for the Baptistry, made between 1420 and 1447 with assistance from Lucca della Robbia, Donatello, Michelozzo, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bernardo Cennini, and two of Ghiberti's sons. Museo...

A 1793 illustration by T. Simpson showing Colonel Blood and his gang stealing the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671. Blood was soon captured and the regalia returned.