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Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

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

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

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

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

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

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

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

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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.

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

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

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

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

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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

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

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

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

Thanka with Buddha

Durga Slaying Mahisha

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

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

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

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

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

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.

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

Krishna with an Ascetic

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

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)

Green Tara

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Buddhist Deities

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Hunting Scene

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

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

Silk Animal Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Folk Painting

Carpet

The Greedy Dog

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

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Manjushri

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.

Krishna Fluting

Les Noces de Cana

Floral Tent Panel

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

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

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Tile Panel

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

A Young Prince on Horseback

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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

A Stallion

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Silk Kashan Carpet

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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

Copy of The Night Watch

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 Battle of Waterloo

慈眼大師像

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.

Velvet and Silk Carpet

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.

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Garden Gathering

Palampore

The Emperor's Carpet

Der Auszug der Römer aus Vicenza

Performance of Hanasaka Jiji, by Toshi, 1889, Meiji 21, from the Hood Museum of Art - PR.995.23.42abc.

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

Textile

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

The Beach at Sumiyoshi from the Tales of Ise

Fragment van een muurschildering

The Merry Family