WLT206725 Jacob\'s Dream, 1557-8 (oil on panel) by Vasari, Giorgio (1511-74) (and workshop); 224.6x237 cm; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA; (add.info.: In Genesis, on his way to Haran, Jacob lay down in the wilderness to sleep, resting his head on a stone. He dreamed of angels ascending and descending a stairway or ladder to heaven. God then appeared and blessed Jacob and his descendants. This large panel for a ceiling for the Florentine Marsilio degli Albizi in 1558 was by Giorgio Vasari who wrote the first history of Italian art.); Italian, out of copyright.