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Cedars, pines, fruit trees etc.



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Adam and Eve. Detail from the lower panel of the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Roman prefect who died in 359 CE. High-relief. This belongs to one of the finest pieces of Roman funerary art of the 4th CE.
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Adam and Eve. Detail from the lower panel of the sarcophagus of Ju...

Adam and Eve. Bas-relief from a sarcophagus.
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Adam and Eve. Bas-relief from a sarcophagus.

God and landscape with trees. "The Story of Noah's Ark". Detail from the silver altar. Jacob's Chapel, Pistoia, Italy
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God and landscape with trees. "The Story of Noah's Ark...

"Liebenau Cross" in the form of a tree of life;silver, gilded,precious stones,pearls and enamel.H: 83,5 cm From the Dominican monastery Liebenau,after 1342.Count Louis von Oettingen,who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land,bequeathed his jewels to be used in a cross.
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"Liebenau Cross" in the form of a tree of life;silver, gilded,precious stones,p...

Eve hands Adam the apple; the snake has a crowned woman's head,(Genesis 3,1-6). Verdun Altar, 51 plaques in champsleve-technique, enamel on gilded copper. 1181, for Prior Wernher of the Augustinian canons of Klosterneuburg, Austria. Total L of the altar: 460 cm
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Eve hands Adam the apple; the snake has a crowned woman's head,(Genesis 3,...

Noah taking the olive twig from dove's beak. MS "Beatus in Apocalipsin" composed around 784 by the abbot of San Martin in Liebano, Spain. The version in hand was illustrated by the monk Emeterio and a nun signed "En Depinctrix" between 970 and 975. Detail of 15-02-01/6.
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Noah taking the olive twig from dove's beak. MS "Beatus in Apocalipsin" compose...

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry were painted by Pol de Limbourg in 1409 and finished 70 years later by Jean Colombe. April:Castle Dourdan, where the Duke kept some of his treasures.Young ladies pluck the first flowers.
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Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry were painted by Pol de Limbourg in 14...

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry were painted by Pol de Limbourg in 1409 and finished 70 years later by Jean Colombe. November:Fattening the pigs.The swineherd throws his stick at the oak-trees to make the acorns fall.
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Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry were painted by Pol de Limbourg in 14...

5 illuminations with text on one page. Jesus' family tree from Josias to Azor. Upper register: siege of Jerusalem, center: the jews led into exile in Babylon, 3 pairs of ancestors, Salathiel, Abiud, Amor. Calf-hide from the diocese of Mainz, mid 13th. MS 13, folio 18 v.
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5 illuminations with text on one page. Jesus' family tree from Josias to Azor...

Heures a l'Usage de Rome, end 14th,early 15th. French and Latin, parchment,21,5 x 15,5 cm, 171 pages. The Flight to Egypt, fol.78 verso.
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Heures a l'Usage de Rome, end 14th,early 15th. French and Latin, parchment,2...

Roman d'Athis et Prophilias ou Le Siege d'Athenes, early 15th.French,parchment, 29 x 21 cm, 133 pages. The Romans celebrate before the Rape of the Sabinian Women.They dance on a meadow to the tune of a lute. Fol.17 verso.
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Roman d'Athis et Prophilias ou Le Siege d'Athenes, early 15th.French,parchm...

The two blind men of Jericho under the mulberry tree. Detail of mosaics ordered by the Grand Legothete Methochites (1st quarter 14th) when he rebuilt the 3rd century Kariye "Chora" Church.
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The two blind men of Jericho under the mulberry tree. Detail of mosaics ordere...