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Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri

Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama's Journey)

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Alauddin Khilji Conquering Ranthamore Fort, Kangra school, India, late 18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Krishna with an Ascetic

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Krishna Fluting

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Folk Painting

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Pradyumna and Samvara fight with maces, from the "Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana"

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Thanka with Buddha

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Green Tara

The work of Carl Blechen, a pivotal ﬁgure in 19th-century German painting, marks a transition from Romanticism to a more realistic view of nature. Inspired in part by his encounter with the Italian landscape and light during a trip he made around 1828 or 1829, Blechen developed a ﬂuid technique that enabled him to capture ﬂeeting atmospheric effects. He often used his landscapes as settings for mysterious ﬁgures, reﬂecting his early contact with Romantic painting and theater.

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Tile Panel

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

An Artisan’s Shop, from the album The Mist of Sandara (Sandara kasumi)

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

Durga Slaying Mahisha

A Young Prince on Horseback

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

The Greedy Dog

Garden Gathering

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Sceneries in the Tropical Land, by Imamura Shiko, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

慈眼大師像

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

A Stallion

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

Manjushri

Floral Tent Panel

Buddhist Deities

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.

"Sketching a Garden" from the series "Streaked Mist (Yae gasumi)", Woodblock print

Famous Views of Ōmi

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

The Beach at Sumiyoshi from the Tales of Ise

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Daibutsu and Scaffolding, by Migita Toshihide, 1895, Meiji 27, from the Hood Museum of Art - PR.995.23.9ab.

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

A winged angel with arms crossed kneels across from a young woman sitting and holding a book, both under an archway in a paneled room in this vertical painting. They both have pale, yellow-toned skin, blond hair, and flat, gold halos. They also have golden brown eyes, long, straight noses, smooth cheeks, and their pale, pink lips are closed. To our right, the woman sits in a throne-like chair with her body facing our left. Her head tilts down, and she looks toward the angel under lowered lids. Her hair is pulled back under the neck of the lapis-blue cloak she wears over a crimson-red dress. The dress and cloak are trimmed with gold, and a there is a gold starburst on the cloak over her left shoulder, closer to us. She holds her other hand up near that shoulder with her fingertips brushing her chest. With her other hand, she holds open the pages of a small book in her lap, so her fingers overlap some of the words. The entire Latin inscription would read, “virgo concipiet et pariet filium et vocabitur nomen eius emmanuel butirum et mel come dit ut fiat reprobare.” A slender, bone-white column separates her from the angel across from her, along the left edge of the painting. The angel has curly, shoulder-length hair and wears a robe with a gold, floral pattern against a burgundy-red background. Long, golden wings emerge from the shoulder blades and extend off the side of the composition. An open archway just beyond the angel is filled with streaks of flax yellow and burnt orange, possibly representing flames. Some of the walls in the room around the pair are pale olive green and other areas are darker spruce green. There are bands of coral-pink molding and inset panels of patterned mosaics. The flat ceiling of the space immediately over the pair is decorated with checkerboard panels in navy blue, hunter green, brown, and brick red. Gold lines create a ray coming from the ceiling toward the woman. At the back of the space, beyond the column separating the woman and angel, the room extends into an alcove with an arched hallway painted with gold stars against a midnight-blue background. Double doors open at the back of the alcove onto a room with a pale-yellow curtain with a mesh-like trim. We see the pair as if through a stone archway that lines the top and sides of the composition. The upper corners are filled with leafy decorations, as if carved into the stone.

The Merry Family

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Fragment of a doorpost

Portrait of the Great Master Yeongwoldang Eungjin

Tathagata Buddha

Adorazione dei Magi. Il Redentore, i Profeti Isaia e David (nelle cuspidi) 1420 circa

Hell Courtesan

Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyakurakanji Sazaido), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Tree of Knowledge, No. 1

Girl Arranging Flowers

Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)

暮れて月いとおもしろきに、宮の亮、女房にあひて、とりわきたるよろこびも啓せさせむとにやあらむ、妻戸のわたりも御湯殿のけはひに濡れ、人の音もせざりければ、この渡殿の東のつまなる宮の内侍の局に立ち寄りて、「ここにや」と案内したまふ。宰相は中の間に寄りて、まだ鎖さぬ格子の上押し上げて、「おはすや」などあれど、いらへもせぬに、な大夫の、「ここにや」とのたまふにさへ、聞きしのばむもことごとしきやうなれば、はかなきいらへなどす。いと思ふことなげなる御けしきどもなり。

Fragment van een muurschildering