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  • An eight-petalled lotus with Vishnu in the center, and eight other deities in each petal representing the eight cardinal directions (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A cardinal singing a lullaby to a lion; representing an attempt by France to maintain the neutrality of the Netherlands in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Engraving after Bernetto, 1740.
  • Francisco Ximenes (1436-1517), cardinal, regent of Spain, founder of the university and hospital of Alcalá, patron of the Complutensian Polyglot. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th century.
  • Francisco Ximenes (1436-1517), cardinal, regent of Spain, founder of the university and hospital of Alcalá, patron of the Complutensian Polyglot. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th century.
  • The dance of death: Death as a cardinal in the Roman Catholic church approaches a prince and encourages him to change his gentle reign to despotism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • The burial of Saint Dominic in Bologna in 1221: friars placing the corpse of Saint Dominic into a coffin in the presence of Cardinal Ugolinus. Line engraving by T. Wier and A. Tendi after a marble relief by C. Bianconi and J-B. Boudard.
  • The three theological virtues (Hope, Faith and Charity) are standing near an altar above which the Holy Spirit is hovering, while the the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Justice, Fortitude and Wisdom) are sitting in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Cardinal Heinrich Schwery, Bishop of Sion, wearing glasses with the message in Italian: "Discriminating against AIDS patients is contrary to the principles of the Gospel."; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Cardinal Henri Schwery, Bishop of Sion, wearing glasses with the message in French: "Discriminiation of AIDS patients is irreconcilable with the gospel."; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by the l'AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Saint Gregory the Great: elected pope, he receives obeisance from the cardinals. Engraving by S.C. Miger, 1770, after C. van Loo.
  • First Vatican Council, 1869-1870: Pope Pius IX leading his cardinals across a plank of wood placed on the ice, watched by Mr Punch. Wood engraving by Swain after J. Tenniel, 1869.
  • Editto : per avvisi havuti da varie città corrispondenti, li signori Conservatori della Sanità di Ferrara con participazione dell' eminentiss. e reverendiss. sig. Cardinale Durazzo Legato, &c. aggiungono ai luoghi altre volte banditi, e sospesi per occasione di peste, li qui sottonotari. Il tutto con le stesse pene, e conforme agli altri bandi fatti per simil cagione ... 7 Agosto 1636 ... / Borso Calcagnino Giudice de'Saui. Giuliano Tamoni Cane.
  • Bando sopra la sanità : il Cardinale Rubini legato : havendo la sanità di Nostro Signore col Suo sommo zelo per la conservazione della publica salute fatto spedire, e publicare in Roma l'infrascritto bando sopra la sanità, ordiniamo, e commandiamo sia anche in questa legatione publicato, & in tutte le sue parti puntualmente osservato sotto la pene, che in esso si contengono. Dat. in Pesaro nel Palazzo Apostolico questo di 17. Gennaro 1691 / P. Patriarca di Gerusalemme Vicelegato ; Pietro Card. Otthoboni, Gio: Battista Spinola Segr.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • Aesculapius. Engraving by I. Wagner after Antonio Maria (Girolamo) Zanetti and Antonio Maria (Alessandro) Zanetti.
  • Blood vessels in the head of a zebrafish embryo
  • Saint Bonaventure. Engraving.
  • Saint Bonaventure. Colour photogravure, 1898.
  • The Eucharist venerated by Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua; surrounded by related symbols, texts and doctrines. Etching by F. Villamena, 1598, after Antonio Tempesta.
  • M0006607: Portrait of Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1436-1517)
  • Pope Pius IX and members of the Papal court. Photograph, 1868.
  • Saint Bonaventure resuscitates a dead child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F.G. Gessi.
  • Saint Bonaventure, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and San Pedro Regalado. Etching by T. Viero after F. Boscarati.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a wounded mouth and cheek, showing minimal scarring after plastic surgery, in profile. Photograph, 1918.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a wounded mouth and cheek, showing scarring after plastic surgery. Photograph, 1918.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a wounded mouth and cheek: before plastic surgery. Photograph, 1917.