Sword with Inscribed Hilt

Knife with Pronged Attachment (perhaps for punching leather), Ordos Type

Ceremonial Shafted Jade Axe with Fragmentary Blade

Saber blade inscribed by Asad Allah

Asad Allah

Skewer

Maker’s mark IR

Skewer

Samuel Godbehere Edward Wigan

Dagger, Ordos Type

A Horseman with a Baton, behind Him Horsemen Exhanging Pistol Shots

Stefano Della Bella

Long Sword (Tachi Blade)

Christ Nailed to the Cross

Augustin Hirschvogel

Claw-Shaped Jade Pendant

Descent From the Cross

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Joannes, Count of Nassau-Siegen

Paulus Pontius Anthony van Dyck

Nuno Salido Tells the Infantes of the Betrayal and Is Killed by a Moor

Antonio Tempesta

Two Roman Units Defeated

Antonio Tempesta

Dragon-Headed Garment Hook

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 7th as the Great Thief Onoemon, with poems by Bunkeisha Shiomichi, Bunkyosha Hazemaru and Bunraisha Matsunami

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Troops on the March

Jacques Callot Matteo Rosselli

Choice Between Virtue and Shame

Pieter Jalhea Furnius Jan van der Straet

Ecce Homo

Antoine Coypel

Scene from the Story of Judith and Holofernes

Anonymous Netherlands 1599

Provincial Kaga Aoe-Type Long Sword (Katana)

Christopher Columbus on His Ship

Adriaen Collaert Jan van der Straet

Enju-School Short Sword (from Higo Province, Kyushu), cut down from longer blade

Long Sword with Satsuma Blade and Wooden Handle and Scabbard

Mounted Patrician

Jost Amman

Scene from the Story of Judith and Holofernes

Anonymous Netherlands 1599

Illustration for Canto VIII

Antonio Tempesta

Naval combat

Michele Lucchese Polidoro da Caravaggio

A Wild Bull Hunt

Antonio Tempesta

Civilis' Troops Crossing the Maas River

Antonio Tempesta

Ferdinand, Infante of Austria, on Horseback

Paulus Pontius Peter Paul Rubens

Balak and Balaam on Mt. Pisgah

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Ferdinand Magellan on His Ship

Adriaen Collaert Jan van der Straet

An Allegory in Honor of the Arrival of Cardinal Franciotti as Bishop of Lucca

Pietro Testa

Illustration for Canto XX

Antonio Tempesta

Hecuba Discovering Polydorus's Body

Antonio Tempesta

The Age of Iron

Antonio Tempesta

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Untitled

Dieter Krieg

Saint Apollonius

Jacques Callot

Louis de Lorraine, Prince de Phalsbourg

Jacques Callot

Illustration for Canto XVI

Antonio Tempesta

The Israelites Defeated by the Canaanites for Having Disobeyed Moses

Antonio Tempesta

Jacob Killing Absalom

Antonio Tempesta

Alcyone Offering Prayers to Juno

Antonio Tempesta

Crowning with Thorns

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Moses' Messengers Returning From Canaan

Johann Sadeler I Maerten de Vos

Soldiers Marching, Armed with Slings

Antonio Fantuzzi Giulio Romano

Flight into Egypt

Pietro Aquila

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 7th as Kagegiyo

Utagawa Kunimasa 歌川国政

Hyppolytus Saved from Death

Antonio Tempesta

Cerialis Pardons and Relieves Roman Soldiers Who Had Helped Civilis

Antonio Tempesta

Humilis animus

Carel van Mallery Maerten de Vos

Armed Angel (Principatus)

Guariento di Arpo

Saint Valentine

Jacques Callot

A Hungarian Horseman

Stefano Della Bella

Illustration for Canto XIII

Antonio Tempesta

Elephant Hunt

Antonio Tempesta

Seeking Revenge, Ruy Velazquez Wounds Gonzalo Gomez

Antonio Tempesta

The Power of the King [3 Esdras 4:3-8]

Philips Galle Gerard van Groeningen

Virūdhaka (Zōchōten), Guardian King of the South, one of the Devarājas (Shitennō), or Four Heavenly Guardian Kings

Dagger with Jade Hilt

William Brattle (1706-1776)

John Singleton Copley

Descent from the Cross

Ugo da Carpi Raphael

Saint Barnabas

Jacques Callot

A Black Horseman

Stefano Della Bella

Ruy Velazquez Orders the Death of Nuno Salido. Gonzalo Gomez Comes to His Aid and Kills the Knight Gonzalo Sanchez

Antonio Tempesta

Cavalry Engagement with Two Warriors in the Foreground

Antonio Tempesta

Atlas Turned into a Mountain

Antonio Tempesta

Orpheus Looking Back at Eurydice

Antonio Tempesta

Moses Ordering the Israelites to Attack the Ethiopians

Antonio Tempesta

Civilis Tells the Dutch Elders that They Are Being Treated Like Slaves by the Romans

Antonio Tempesta

Crucifixion with Three Angels

Albrecht Dürer

The Power of Woman [3 Esdras 4:18-19, 22-23, 29-32]

Philips Galle Gerard van Groeningen

The Power of Wine [3 Esdras 3:19-23]

Philips Galle Gerard van Groeningen

The Dissipation of the Spanish Enemy

Philips Galle Jan van der Straet

The Seed Falling by the Way Side [Matt. 13-19] Negligence and Inertia accompanying a sleeping traveller robbed of the word sown in his heart by the devil.

Philips Galle Gerard van Groeningen

Samson Taken By the Philistines

Nicolò Boldrini Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

The Winner

Ernst Barlach

Cavalry Attack, with Two Men Speared

Antonio Tempesta

Illustration for Canto IV

Antonio Tempesta

Anaxarete Seeing the Dead Iphis

Antonio Tempesta

Scene from the Story of Judith and Holofernes

Anonymous Netherlands 1599

Bear Hunt

Antonio Tempesta

Hunters Capturing Snakes

Antonio Tempesta

Civilis Floods the Land by Means of Dikes in Defense

Antonio Tempesta

Giovanni de Medici Surrounded at Rome

Philips Galle Jan van der Straet

Abraham and the Three Angels

Giuseppe Calendi Lorenzo Ghiberti

Fudō Myō-ō and Dōji

Portrait of Emperor William II of Germany

Arthur Kampf

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Unidentified Artist Albrecht Dürer

Samson Taken by the Philistines

Nicolò Boldrini Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)