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

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

Krishna Fluting

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

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

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

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

Green Tara

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

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

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

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

Collection of Poems (Divan)

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

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)

Cloth with Procession of Figures

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

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

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

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

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

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Carpet

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Manjushri

Thanka with Buddha

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Fragment van een muurschildering

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

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

Krishna with an Ascetic

Excellent Ox, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Bacchante on a Panther

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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.

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

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

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

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

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Close to us, a bearded, balding man leads a donkey carrying a woman and child to our right against a hilly landscape in this horizontal painting. All three people have pale, peachy skin and halos. The man has a gray beard and hair, and wears a royal-blue tunic under a ruby-red robe. He leans on a walking stick and looks back at the donkey. The woman riding the donkey wears a blue and gold brocade-like cloak covering her head and body. She has a straight nose, small pink lips, and she looks toward the infant she holds close to her body. The baby wears a white garment and reaches for the woman’s face with one hand as he turns to look over his shoulder toward us. The path they walk on is lined with grass and detailed plants. A river runs parallel to the path a short distance away. The horizon line comes about two-thirds of the way up the painting is lined with green trees, blue mountains, and a few buildings to our left. Wispy white clouds sweep across an azure-blue sky streaked with peach near the horizon.

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

A Stallion

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

Amitabha Triad, Tokyo National Museum

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Goddess Riding a Dragon, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

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

Silk Animal Carpet

Folk Painting

The Greedy Dog

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

慈眼大師像

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Buddhist Deities

Tathagata Buddha

Gibbons in a Landscape

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

Hunting Scene

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

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.

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

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

Peonies

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

The Emperor's Carpet

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Shiva Nataraja

Ivy Lane

Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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.

Belt clasp

Fox, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

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

Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Medea in Chariot (A); Telephos with Baby Orestes (B)

Palampore

As painter to the king of Spain, Francisco de Goya also designed tapestries for the royal residences. To work out his designs, he first made small oil sketches and followed them with full-scale painted cartoons that served as guides for the king's weavers. This cartoon was produced for a tapestry in a series decorating the dining room in the Royal Palace of El Pardo, outside Madrid.

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat