LSE4315257: Pyramus and Thisbe. (The two Babylonians loved each other despite the opposition of their families, decidating to flee together, they meet at the foot of a murier. Arriving Pyramus believes that her friend was devoured by a lioness and stab herself with despair. Thisbee returns to find Pyramus dead and stab himself.) Anonymous painting, oil on wood, circa 1505. German Art (Nuremberg), 16th century. Colmar Museum., German School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702291: Anglo Saxon flag 53, swords 54,55, slingshot 56, magisterial staffs 57,58, 74, lances 59-63, daggers 64,65, double headed axe of the Danes called a Bipennis 66, Danish axes 67,68, Anglo Saxon scepters 69-73, and an Anglo Saxon sword with bejeweled handle and scabbard 75. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Paul Weindl from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,””” Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4664973: A miniature horsemen from the manuscript “” De Universo” (or De rerum naturis (De la Nature des choses)) (cod. 132) by Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (or Raban Maur or Rabano Mauro) (ca. 780-856). 9th century. Archive of Monte Cassino Abbey (Mount Cassin), German School, (9th century) / Bridgeman Images