Master of Papeleu,   Virtue Garden, from La Somme le Roi (and Le Miroir de l'âme) by Laurent of Orleans , 1295, Illumination on vellum In 1279, a Dominican monk known as Frère Laurent produced—whether by original composition or careful compilation—the Somme le roi , a handbook of moral instruction prepared for King Philip III of France. The work circulated widely, and no fewer than fifteen of its manuscripts contain a richly symbolic illustration commonly called the “Virtue G

Alexander Louis Leloir (1843-84), Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1865 Genesis 32   22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, an