Images

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.

This map illustrates the complexity and interconnected nature of the English Civil Wars (1642–1651), also known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms—England, Scotland, and Ireland. These overlapping conflicts were driven by competing visions...

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.

The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert by John Lee.

An illustration portraying a conversion of Zacchaeus. Etching. Created by Pietro Monaco between 1730–39 after the work by Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644). Located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Roundel with Christ and Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus was a tax collector in the city of Jericho during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth (20’s-30’s CE) who was converted to christianity. Stained glass. Created between 1500–1510. Located at the Metropolitan...

A bronze statue portraying an ancient Israelite judge Samson fighting with the Lion. Located at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Credits to The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982.