-Magi making their symbolic offerings of Gold for royalty, Frankincense for divinity, and Myrrh for bitterness and suffering, to the infant Jesus, having followed the star that would lead them to the Messiah. Bible Matthew 2. Chromolithograph c1860
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Telemachus and Mentor in a Galley after Fleeing the Island of Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 8 (1808) --Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italian, 1781-1835)