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Like the Christian hero in Martin Schongauer’s late fifteenth-century print, The Temptation of St Anthony, left [1879.5.24.13], Dürer’s Knight is heroic in his indifference to

When at Luke 24, 46, immediately before his death, Jesus says 'Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit', he is using the words of Psalm 31, 5.

This online version went live to coincide with the gallery display 'Changing Faces: Anthony Van Dyck as an etcher' (17 February–24 May 2009).

The upper inscription around the neck is a famous passage from the Qur'an known as the 'Verse of Light' (24:35), declaring God to the light of the earth, and

the court of the Emperor Yung Lo (reigned 1403–24).

Mosque Lamp. Detail. Mosque lamp. 'Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth; his light is like a niche in which is a lamp.' (Qur'an, Sura 24: 35f.).

Cook (London: British Museum Press. 2011): 18-24. ‘The 'English Custom': folding coins in medieval England’.

In all, 528 figured illustrations are distributed over its 234 pages, 24 of them full-page miniatures that mark the main divisions within the book.

Arthur Banks Skinner); 1905 by inheritance, Humphrey Wyndham Cook, London; His sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1925, lot 242, bt Henry Harris, London; His sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 October

The studio depicted here was on the top floor of 24 Rue Fagard in Bohain, the small, northern town in which Matisse had grown up and to which in 1903 he