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Louis XVI of France
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.
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Gospel of Nicodemus
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...
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Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Lamentation over the Dead Christ, oil on panel painting by Pietro Perugino, 1495.
Uffizi, Florence.
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Jacob Wrestles with God
Jacob wrestling with an angel or God.
Palantine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily
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Jacob's Dream at Bethel by Raphael
Jacob's Dream at Bethel, fresco by Raphael (1483-1520).
Vatican Palace.
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Esau & Jacob by Ghiberti
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...
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Thomas Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels
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.
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Portrait of John Wesley Gilbert
John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) in 1888.
Images of Brown, Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library, Providence.
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Colonel Thomas Blood
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.
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John Lee
Image of John Lee, author of The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert.
