Illustrations

The Fall of Man, 1549 (oil on panel) by Cranach, Lucas the Younger (1515-86), © Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA, Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection

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Glad Day or The Dance of Albion, c.1794 (etching with w/c) by Blake, William (1757-1827), British Museum, London, UK

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The Egyptian god Set

Statue of the god Horus making a drink offering, Third Intermediate Period c.750 BC (bronze), Louvre, Paris, France

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Diana Lucifera (Lucina)

A late Roman statue, she carries the torch symbolizing spiritual resurrection and illumination

Pan, c.1880 (bronze on stone plinth) by Thabard, Adolf Martial (1831-1905), private collection/Agra Art, Warsaw, Poland

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Negative of the Turin Shroud

Aggemian's 1935 portrait taken from the cloth

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) engraving by English School, (19th century), private collection/Ken Welsh

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The Virgin and Child with St Anne and John the Baptist, c. 1499 (charcoal, chalk on paper) by Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519), National Gallery, London, UK

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Mary Magdalene, 1877 (oil on canvas) by Rossetti, Dante Charles Gabriel (1828-82), © Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA/Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial

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The Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-goat, (one of `The Black Paintings'), c.1821-23 (oil on canvas) by Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828), Prado, Madrid, Spain/Giraudon

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Three Witches Burned Alive, pamphlet illustration (woodcut) by German School, (16th century), private collection/The Stapleton Collection

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Edward Kelly (b.1555), a magician, and his partner the mathematician and astrologer, John Dee (1527-1608), raising a ghost, private collection

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Sir Isaac Newton

Anonymous, Petworth House, West Sussex, UK

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