Mythical and Historical Themes

A fusion of mystical and historical illustrations featuring allegories, biblical events, and cultural stories, using vibrant colors and intricate details.

A monk and a nun loving one another Date: 16th century

The Hermetic Androgyne: King=Sun=Gold, Queen=Moon=Silver, Dragon=Mercury=Volatility and so transmutation. Miniature from late 17th century German manuscript

German 15th Century, The Last Supper, c. 1480-1500, woodcut, hand-colored in blue, lt. blue, lavender, vermilion, rose, tan, yellow, and green

The Last Judgment / Last Judgment Georgin, François (1801 1863), Rhenh, Guido (1575 1642), Peller

Charity - Good Samaritan helps an injured stranger while others walk by

Fabulous Russian postcard featuring a reproduction of a painting by Boris Zvorykin (1897-1935) depicting Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great, also sometimes spelled Volodymer (c. 958-1015) - the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 988. His name is spelt in a variety of ways: in modern Ukrainian, for example, as Volodymyr; in Old Church Slavonic and modern Russian, as Vladimir; in Old Norse as Valdamarr; and, in modern Scandinavian as Valdemar. Date: 1930

Depicts Paul and a messenger presenting letters from Paul, illustrated by Georg Lemberger in 1524 using woodcut and color, showing figures and biblical correspondence.

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A man wearing red and yellow clothes

A monk and a nun loving one another Date: 16th century

Four figures. A figure in a long robe, his heart visible on his chest, stands on a sphere. In his right hand he holds a swamped book containing the word "ides." On the right a winged figure, left a woman in chains. On the right in the foreground a thief sneaks away.

Tarot Card - Roy de Deniers (King of Coins).

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus) fl150 AD, Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, using quadrant to observe moon and stars. Urania, Muse of Astronomy, instructs him. Shown wearing crown as often confused with Ptolemaic kings of Egypt.

Tarot Card 9 - L'Ermite (The Hermit). Date: 20th century

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

Legend of Jew Calling Devil from vessel of blood, 1560.

The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: mogao ku), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves, form a system of 492 temples 25 km (15.5 miles) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. The first caves were dug out 366 CE as places of Buddhist meditation and worship. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient sculptural sites of China. The caves also have famous wall paintings.

The goddess Macha curses the Men of Ulster. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Stephen Reid from Eleanor Hull's Cuchulain The Hound of Ulster, Harrap, London, 1909.

San Juan Bautista (siglo I), profeta y predicador, coetáneo de Jesús de Nazaret. Imagenería de Epinal. Grabado del siglo XIX.

Engraving from a 13th century manuscript depicting an astronomy lesson. The central figure is shown using an astrolabe. Date 13th Century

François de Poilly (1622-1693). "Saint Nicolas". Engraving. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 77900-5 Chretian Chretian, Orthodox Church, Child, Awakening, Tradition, Engraving

Babushkino nastavlenie.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Tarot Card - Valet d'Epee (Page of Swords).

The Virgin of Mariazell protecting a peasant who carries her image with him. Gouache.

Maria in Heaven, Anonymous, 1470 - 1480 print Maria, halfway, on a cloud, with a halo of (oxidized) silver. Augsburg paper. silver (metal) Mary (without the Christ-child)

German 15th Century, A Monk with an Angel, 1480 1490 A Monk with an Angel

Saint Catherine of Alexandira treading a Turk. Stefanow, Samuel (fl. ca 1746-ca 1827), graphic artist, Łazarski, Zygmunt (1885-1943), publisher

Depicts Paul and a messenger delivering the Galatian letter from the New Testament, illustrated by Georg Lemberger in 1524 using woodcut and color, showing figures in communication and biblical context.

CAMPESINOS - HACIA 1750 - OLEO/LIENZO. Author: NADAL FERRAGUT JAUME. Location: POSESION DE MASSANELLA. ESCORCA.

Tarot Card 3 - L'Imperatrice (The Empress).

SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ('Enlightened One') The young Siddhartha symbolically cuts his hair as a sign that he is renouncing worldly values Date: 563 BC - 483 BC

Shawl Dance, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros. 1889 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the series "National Dances" (N225), issued in 1889 to promote Kinney Brothers Cigarettes for Kinney Tobacco Company. There were two card variations issued within the series. Type 1 cards display a white border around the edges whereas Type 2 have no border.. Shawl Dance, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

EL ORIGEN DE MAHOMA - ALI, YERNO Y PRIMO DE MAHOMA EN UNA PINTURA MURAL DEL MAUSOLEO DE FATIMA IBN MUSA - SIGLO IX. Location: SANTUARIO CHITA. QUM. IRAN.

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Man harvesting absinthe. Miniature. Folio 37r.

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A wedding

Hand-painted slide with the spies, slide plate slideshope images glass paper, Hand-painted slides with top and bottom edges of white-red checkered paper. Image of two men carrying large cluster of grapes on stick in an exotic landscape with palm trees The picture refers to the spies exploring Canaan and is based on the Bible (Numbers 13 verse 23) optics magic lantern magic lantern slide toy projecting exoticism bible spy religion

A druid is persuading a Celtic king against Christianity when it is seen that the rock he is standing on is melting, revealing that he is the devil.

A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.

Moses and the burning bush. 16th century engraving. Colored.

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Together with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.

1910 vintage vignette, sticker from Cardon Chocolates showing Gaul druids cutting mistletoe

Tacuinum Sanitatis, Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on medical observations detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. People next to hazelnut. Miniature. Fol. 16r.

Picture series folk costumes from Russia, Gouv. Archangel, Tula and Orel, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Musicians and dancers, Chinese woodblock print, China.

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Peasant with a basket of capers on her head. Miniature. Folio 24v.

religion biblical scenes Jonah and the wale miniature breviary of King Ferdinand II of Aragon Naples 1504 - 1516 Museum of the Diocese of Cologne Old Testament Book of Jonah prophet christianity Judaism fish fine arts illumination 16. century Fernando,

Diabolus's drummer before the walls of Mansoul. From the book ""The Holy War' by John Bunyan, from late 19th century edition.

Illumination depicting the Story of Saints Anthony and Paul the Hermit from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours. Dated 15th Century

Andreas Musculus (Meusel) 1514-1581. German Lutheran Theologian. Portrait. Engraving, 1555.

Saint Thecla. Gouache painting on vellum.

Huayna Capac (h.1465-1525). Inca emperor (1493-1525). Son of Tupac Inca Yupanqui. Engraving, 1726. Colored engraving.

Tarot Card - Cavalier d'Epee (Knight of Swords).

A fairy and a peacock

Votive pictures, votive tablets on the walls of the grace chapel within the church, Mary's pilgrimage church in Sammarei, district of Passau, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Madonna, crowned by two angels. Round representation of Mary with the Christ child on the chest. She is crowned by two angels. Right and left of her a plant.

Picture series folk costumes from Russia, Saint Petersburg, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact...

Tarot Card 16 - La Maison Dieu (The Tower).

The burning bush is an object described by the Book of Exodus (3: 1-21) as being located on Mount Sinai; according to the narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. In the narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan.

The Archangel Michael. From the Series 'The Mystical Images of War' by Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna (1881-1962)/ Private Collection/ 1914/ Russia/ Lithograph/ Expressionism/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History

Bamboo with bird painting on a wall in Chinese temple

Christ a good shepherd

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers).

Saint Andrew ca. 1610 Workshop of El Greco Greek This painting is an early-seventeenth-century, reduced workshop replica of the figure of the apostle that appears in a larger devotional canvas by El Greco, Saint Andrew and Saint Francis (Prado, Madrid). Andrew and his brother, the apostle Peter, were fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. The first to follow Christ, Andrew is said to have preached in Scythia, Asia Minor, and Greece, where he was reportedly martyred on an x-shaped cross at the hands of the Roman governor.. Saint Andrew. Workshop of El Greco (Spanish, ca. 1610). ca. 1610. Oil on canvas. Paintings

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about the fir tree. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Woodcut by Georg Lemberger depicting Paul with a messenger from 2 Corinthians in the New Testament (Luther Bible), colored in 1524.

Moses and Joshua descend from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Law broken and found the Israelites worshiping the golden fleece. Engraving in Liber Chronicarum by Hartman Schedel, 15th century. Latin edition. Colored.

An Indian girl with a huge snake which is virtually the same size as her.

superstition the three methods to hold a divining rod usage after Athanasius Kircher colour engraving from ""La physique occulte"" by abb_ de Vallemont Den Haag 1762 private collection historic historical Europe Netherlands 18th century esotericism occultism magic turban dowsing dowser abbe,

The scene of a Aztec feast, illustration taken from the History of the Indies by Diego Duran, 1579 manuscript.

Archangel Michael / Sandl / C19th

Blindfolded woman and monster. A blindfolded woman is sitting on her knees with a monster with a peacock tail on her back. Above her the text 'morals - laws' and a Bible. There is a man with a crown and a scepter on a chair. On the left is a winged woman with a sacred heart in her hand and in her belly a figure in fetal attitude.

Picture series folk costumes from Russia, Kaluga and Nizhniy-Novgorod, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900, public do...

Our Lady of Okulice. unknown, graphic artist, Łazarski, Zygmunt (1885-1943), publisher

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Peasant picking saffron. Miniature. Folio 40v.

Pay Your Respects, Bilibin - Russian Tales

Traditional costume, clothing, Turkish woman dancing, c. 1700, Turkey, copperplate engraving by Caspar Luyken from 1703, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th century original.

YUAN SHI T'IEN-TSUN Taoist deity, First Principle of the Universe, portrayed riding on a fierce monster Date: 1915

Pia Bühler, Christmas story, flight, Maria, Joseph, Child Jesus

Chinese god FONG-PE the God of the Winds Date: 1915

An old witch working magic, using her distaff to cause a storm. Date: 1537

Manivelu, mouse, artist Manivelu, symbols, hindu belief, hindu, hinduism, art, himalayan academy art, mushika, ganesha s mount, ganesh, modaka sweet, ganesha Copyright: xHimalayanxAcademy/DinodiaxPhotox

A Russian executioner in all- red costume, carrying a heavyswordDate: 13th century

Tarot Card 5 - Le Pape (The Pope).

Tarot Card - Valet de Deniers (Page of Coins).

Aztec temple sacrifice. Artist: Unknown

black slave hangs by his upper body from a hook attached to a gallows. Skulls and bones lie on the ground. Source title Report of a five-year expedition against the revolting Negroes of Surinam, c. 1790, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Allegory on the election of the anti-pope, miniature, 12th Century.

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

A rishi (hindu teacher with mystical knowledge) with five heads and four arms, holding prayer beads in three hands and a manuscript in the fourth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

St Romedius on the back of the bear, by Luigi Motta, watercolor. Shrine of St Romedius, Sanzeno, Italy.

Woodcut by Georg Lemberger from 1524 depicting the sixth seal from the New Testament, showing an earthquake, solar and lunar events, and falling stars, illustrating Revelation of John 6:12-17.

A Chinese man tortures a prisoner bound at the stake. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

God with Coffin and Urn, Antique Skeletons of Amsterdam

Native American medicine man from the Blackfoot tribe. Date: 1830

Pia Bühler, Christmas story, Bethlehem, Maria, Joseph, Child Jesus, stable, ox, donkey

An Angel with Flame Red Wings and a Snake Around Its Arm (From 'Paradise And The Peri' by Moore) 1860 Artist Unknown Newberry Library, Chicago

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A woman and a beggar

Staring at a Bird, Sailors

Pocahontas at the court of King James by Richard Rummels. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations. she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him.

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) by Hartmann Schedel. 1493. IllustratorMichael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Language: Latin, German. Engraving. The Adoration of the Golden Calft by the israelitas. Moses went down from the mount Sinai, but upon seeing the calf, he became angry and threw down the two Tablets of Stone. Latin edition. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Spain. Colored.

Ma'at, the Egyptian goddess of mourning, carries in her hand the ankh, symbol of life in this relief from Tomb KV 5.

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