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

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

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

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

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

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

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

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

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

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

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.

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, from a copy of the Seven Hundred Verses (Sat Sai) of Bihari

The Greedy Dog

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

A Young Prince on Horseback

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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

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

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

A Stallion

Krishna with an Ascetic

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

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.

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

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

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

Thanka with Buddha

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

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

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

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)

Collection of Poems (Divan)

This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).

Tile Panel

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.

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

Folk Painting

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.

Famous Views of Ōmi

Floral Tent Panel

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

Garden Gathering

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

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

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

Dozens of light-skinned men and women gather around clusters of columns and sandstone-colored buildings that line a crimson-red river to our right in this horizontal painting. The center of the painting is dominated by a structure made up of three rows of three columns each, which hold up a flat-topped roof. A similar structure angles into the distance along the left edge of the painting. The columns of these two structures are carved with bands showing people separated by rings of vertical lines. The capitals are carved with stylized leaves. Just beyond the columns to our left, a blocky, rose-pink structure is carved with more people, seated or standing singly or in pairs. More rectangular, parchment-brown buildings extend into the distance along the water’s edge. The people gathered along the riverbank wear robes and tunics in deep blue or black, bright white, or saturated tones of cobalt blue, ruby red, or shell pink. Standing within the columns of the central structure, a crowned, bearded man wearing an emerald-green robe under a scarlet-red cloak gestures to our right, toward the red river. A woman nearby, wearing lapis blue and also crowned, watches with hands flung up as a person pours red liquid from a bucket. Most of the other people look or gesture toward the river, which winds in deep S-curves from the horizon line, which comes about two-thirds of the way up the composition, through sage-green fields, to the town. A single, white lightning bolt zigzags down from a white cloud in an otherwise navy-blue sky above.

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

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

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

Silk Animal Carpet

Carpet

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

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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

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.

Krishna Fluting

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Silk Kashan Carpet

Exhibit in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Buddhist Deities

Hell Courtesan

Peonies

Les Noces de Cana

Hunting and fishing scenes

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

慈眼大師像

Palampore

The Merry Family

Portrait of Momonoi Naoaki

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Hunting Scene

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock