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Tile Panel

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Collection of Poems (Divan)

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

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

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

Carpet

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

Mandala Base

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

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Silk Kashan Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Silk Animal Carpet

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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.

Hunting and fishing scenes

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

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

Spiegellijst, beschilderd met vier allegorische vrouwenfiguren

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Walters manuscript W.619 is an illuminated manuscript containing 2 works by Sa"di (died 691 AH/AD 1292): the Gulistan (Rose garden) and the Bustan (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH/AD 1572 by Muhammad Riza al-Tabrizi in Iran. The text of the Gulistan appears in the main area, while that of the Bustan is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta"liq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black.

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Waistcoat

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.

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Hinds House Window

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

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

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Tile Panel

Hunting Scene

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

Textile Fragment

Tile Panel

Viewing the Seashore at the Eguchi Inn

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

The Greedy Dog

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

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

Birds and Flowers

Phoenixes and Paulownia

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.

Peacocks and Bamboo

Gibbons in a Landscape

Paradise

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

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.

Peahen and hibiscus

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

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Buddhist Deities

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

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

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

Palampore

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.

Thanka with Buddha

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

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.

Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom

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

Six women, eight men, two satyrs, and one child gather in pairs and trios in a loose row that spans the width of this nearly square painting. They are set within a landscape with craggy rocks, cliffs, and trees. Most of the people face us, and the men, women, and child have pale skin. The two satyrs have men’s torsos and furry goat’s legs, and they have darker, olive complexions. Most of the men wear voluminous, knee-length togas wrapped in short robes in shades of white, topaz blue, grass green, coral orange, or rose pink. Most of the women wear long, dress-like garments in tones of shell pink, apricot orange, or lapis blue over white sleeves. For all but one woman, their garments have fallen off one shoulder to reveal a round, firm breast. Several objects are strewn on the rocky, dirt ground in front of the group, including a wide, wooden bucket with a piece of paper affixed to its front to our right, a glass goblet, a pitchfork, a large blue and white ceramic dish filled with grapes and small yellow fruits, and an overturned cup near the center. Cliff-like, craggy rocks rise steeply behind the group to our left, filling much of the sky opposite a tall grove of leafy, dark green trees to our right. A few puffy white clouds float across the vivid blue sky. The slip of paper on the barrel has been inscribed, “joannes bellinus venetus p MDXIIII.”

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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

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

The Emperor's Carpet

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

Folk Painting

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Jewelry Elements

Peonies