Interstitial Image

Michael Willmann, Landscape with the Dream of Jacob, ca. 1691. The painting depicts the story from Genesis in which Jacob, sleeping outdoors on his journey to find his wife Rachel, dreams of a ladder on which he sees angels ascending and descending between heaven and earth.

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