Images

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 dell'Opera...

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.

John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) in 1888. Images of Brown, Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library, Providence.

A map illustrating the complexity, viciousness, and chaos of the English Civil Wars, also known as the War of the Three Kingdoms (England, Scotland, and Ireland) between 1642 and 1651. The roots of the conflicts stemmed from the contrasting...

An early 19th-century illustration of 'Colonel' Thomas Blood (1618-80) who infamously tried and failed to steal the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.

Image of John Lee, author of The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert.