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Collection Context: sign, and, symbols

Headline: Cain and Abel, William de Brailes Psalter

Typology

A depiction of Moses with horns in Leaves from Laurent d’Orléans, La Somme le roi

Moses' Horns

MS.242

In the Margins

Folio 71r: The Tree of Consanguinity

Family Trees

St Augustine, with an angel above, by Simone Martini

SS Geminianus, Augustine and Michael

Example of an ijazah, or diploma of competency in Arabic calligraphy. Public Domain image Library of Congress

Islamic Calligraphy

A depiction of Ba from the coffin set of E.1.1822

The Goldfinch

Seated figure of Isis nursing Horus Egypt, 200-100 BC The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge E.122.1954

The Star of Mary

Luca di Tommè's c.1370 altarpiece

The Madonna of Humility

The Annunciation

The Annunciation

A section from the Book of Hours

The Symbols of the Evangelists

Salvator Rosa’s 17th century painting L’Umana Fragilita

Terminus

Palma Vecchio's naked Venus

The Virgin's Breasts

Self-Portrait with the Colosseum

Ruins

A glass dish showing the symbol of Venice

The Meaning of Glass

The Annunciation

The Unicorn

Still-life with flowers, by Georg Flegel [PD.12-1996]

Flowers of the Field

An Etruscan mirror depicting a scene from the Odyssey

Mirrors

Venus and Cupid with a lute-player, by Titian

Feathered Caps and Lutes

The Worship of the Golden Calf, by Frans Francken

Cows and Bulls

Four Seasons dancing in a landscape to the accompaniment of the god's lyre [PD.27-1952]

The Lyre

Rossetti's depiction of Mary Magdalene

Rossetti's Magdalene

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