The Dream of Emperor Heraclius (c. 1385-87) by Italian painter Agnolo Gaddi. An angel is depicted in the top-right corner playing into parallels of Walter Benjamin’s “Angel of History” found in IX of his “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”
Historicizing Muhammad and Late Antiquity Arabia
Original size at 1000 × 1225
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Into the Rose-garden 
