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

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

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

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

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

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

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

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

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

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.

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Durga Slaying Mahisha

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

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

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

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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)

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

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

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

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

A Young Prince on Horseback

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Krishna with an Ascetic

Krishna Fluting

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

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.

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

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

A Stallion

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Thanka with Buddha

Green Tara

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Fragment van een muurschildering

Crossing at Sano

Tile Panel

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

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

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

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

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Manjushri

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

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

Garden Gathering

The image shows a young child standing next to a rocking horse. The child is standing upright with one hand resting on the rocking horse's head and the other hand holding a whip. The child has fair skin, blue eyes, and short blonde hair with a small curl at the top. The child wears an orange dress with floral patterns, white lace-trimmed pantaloons, white stockings, and black shoes. The background includes red drapery on the left side and a bright landscape visible through a window, as well as a deep green hue on the right side.

Buddhist Deities

Bernat Martorell was one of the greatest painters in Catalonia, Spain, during the first half of the 15th century. Here, he rendered a frequently depicted episode from the popular legend of Saint George, in which the model Christian knight saves a town and rescues a beautiful princess. George’s halo and armor and the scaly dragon are richly modeled with raised stucco decoration.

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

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

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

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

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.

Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

Folk Painting

慈眼大師像

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

Hunting Scene

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

Copy of The Night Watch

Silk Animal Carpet

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

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

The Battle of Waterloo

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

Dozens of people form a line starting from an opening in a city wall or building in the background to a rustic shed-like structure close to us, to kneel before a seated woman holding a baby on her lap in this vertical painting. All of the people have pale skin tinged faintly with green. The top edge of the panel is shaped so it has two rounded sections like shoulders leading to a stepped, crown-like form with an inward curving triangle at the top. A nickel-gray, crenelated stone wall of a distant city is nestled into the top, stepped section, with a glimmering gold sky above filling the uppermost triangle. Tile-roofed and domed buildings and a few towers appear densely packed beyond the wall. People on foot and horseback create a line from an arched opening in the wall toward us and to our right. Three of the people on horseback in the distance wear long robes and have gold halos. The line of people winds behind a tall, narrow hill to our right and it continues close to us. Two horses, two camels, and several people wait to the right but our attention is drawn to the trio in the foreground, Mary, Jesus, and Joseph, and the three men near the infant, the Magi. Mary wears a lapis-blue mantle covering her head and shoulders over a petal-pink dress, and she sits on a wooden or stone chest in the center of the painting. Her body faces us but she turns her face to look with pale blue eyes off to our right. In one hand she holds a hexagonal gold vessel that tapers to a flame-like finial. With the other hand, on our left, she supports the blond infant sitting in her lap. He is covered only with a white cloth around his waist, and he looks toward the vessel as he holds up the index and middle fingers of his right hand. To our left and slightly behind Mary, a balding man with white hair and beard and wearing a blue garment under a red robe sits with his head propped in his hand, looking down. His other hand rests on what might be the handle of a crutch or staff. The man, woman, and child have gold halos with what appears to be writing. The three Magi also have gold halos and they all wear scarlet-red shoes. The oldest kneels before Mary and kisses Jesus's feet. He has a long, light gray beard and is balding. He wears a brocade-like gold robe over pale brick-red sleeves. A cleanshaven man with dark brown hair and wrinkles around his mouth kneels to our left as he raises a jewel-encrusted gold crown from his head. He wears a gold and red floral-patterned garment and holds a rounded vessel, also with a flame-like finial. A younger, cleanshaven man with smooth features and shoulder-length, curling blond hair to our right also wears a gold crown. A dagger hangs from the waist of his sky-blue tunic, and his leggings are pale plum purple. Both arms are bent to his hands are held up, and in his right hand, he holds another tabernacle-like gold vessel. The structure to our left houses a donkey and bull munching hay. A gold sunburst floats above the roof, which seems to be built up against the stone wall of a building. The hills and trees beyond the people is painted with pine and moss greens and brown.

Tathagata Buddha

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

The Greedy Dog

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq

Lakeside Retreat

Uccello — the Battle of San Romano

Paradise

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Ivy Lane

Ema (Votive Painting) of a Chinese Lion and Peony Tree by Flowing Water

Carpet

Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads