Works of Art (121)
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Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493,
Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (German),
Engraver and Publisher: Michel Wolgemuth (German),
Author: Hartmann Schedel,
Printed book with woodcut illustrations (21.36.145) |
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Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, ca. 1095,
Huang Tingjian (Chinese),
Handscroll, ink on paper (1989.363.4) |
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Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi, ca. 1310
Zhao Mengfu (Chinese),
Handscroll, ink on paper (1989.363.30) |
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Groom and Horse, dated 1296,
Zhao Mengfu (Chinese),
Handscroll, ink and color on paper (1988.135) |
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Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon: From the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1520–25,
Iran, Tabriz,
Colors, ink, silver, and gold on paper (1970.301.51) |
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Manuscript Leaf from a Choir Book, second half of 15th century,
Mariano del Buono (Italian, Florentine(?)),
Parchment, tempera, ink, gold leaf (96.32.15) |
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Tahmuras Defeats the Divs: From the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1520–25,
Iran, Tabriz,
Colors, ink, silver, and gold on paper (1970.301.3) |
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Two Eagles, dated 1702,
Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) (Chinese),
Hanging scroll, ink on paper (L.1997.30) |
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Wind among the Trees on the Riverbank, dated 1363,
Ni Zan (Chinese),
Hanging scroll, ink on paper (1989.363.39) |
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Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1550, Enea Vico (Italian), Engraving (17.50.16) |
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[Aesopus moralitus] Vita, Fabulae (The Moralized Aesop; Life, Fables): Folio 4v, Author: Aesop,
Translator and editor: Francesco del Tuppo,
Naples: Francesco del Tuppo, February 13, 1485,
Printed book with woodcut (or metalcut?) illustrations (31.62.9)
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Alexander Visits the Sage Plato: Page from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, dated 1597—98; Mughal, Attributed to Basawan, Pakistan (Lahore), Ink, colors, and gold on paper (13.228.30) |
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Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina, 1805–12, Francesco Rosaspina (Italian), after an oil painting by Francesco Albani (Italian), Engraving and etching (45.78.123) |
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Amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man, late 5th century B.C.; Classical,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (1999.68) |
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And There's Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio), 1810–23,
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish),
Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnisher (32.62.17) |
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Apulegio volgare (Apuleius in the Vernacular): Signature E2v,
Author: Lucius Apuleius,
Translator: Matteo Maria Boiardo,
Venice: Nicolo daristotele da Ferrara & Vincenzo de Polo da Venetia, 1519, 2d ed. (1st ed., 1518),
Printed book with woodcut illustrations (56.608.1)
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Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019) |
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Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry, 1851, Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (American), Marble (1996.74) |
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Bohemia Lies by the Sea, 1996, Anselm Kiefer (German), Oil, emulsion, shellac, charcoal, and powdered paint on burlap (1997.4a,b) |
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Bookstand, 1839,
Designer: Charles-Auguste Questel (French); Maker: Georges-Alphonse Jacob Desmalter (French),
France; Paris,
Oak, maple, ebony, ebony veneer, ebonized maple, snakewood, ivory, mother-of-pearl, silk velvet, gilt bronze, and brass (2006.518)
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Bridal Chamber of Herse, Tapestry, ca. 1550, Workshop of Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish), Made/manufactured: Brussels, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, silver (41.190.135) |
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Cento favole morali (One Hundred Moral Tales): The Crow and the Serpent (page 35),
Author and illustrator: Giovanni Maria Verdizotti,
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1570,
Printed book with woodcut illustrations (48.165) |
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Chariot Mount with Three Figures, 300–500, Byzantine; Probably made in Gaul, Copper alloy (47.100.42) |
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Charles Baudelaire, ca. 1863,
Étienne Carjat (French),
Woodburytype (64.677.4) |
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Classic of Filial Piety, Northern Song dynasty, ca. 1085, Li Gonglin (Chinese), Handscroll; ink on silk (1996.479) |
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Clytie, 1869–70; this carving, 1872, William Henry Rinehart (American), Marble (11.68.1) |
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Couplet, dated 1867, Zhao Zhiqian (Chinese), Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper (2000.345.1,2) |
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The Death of Socrates, 1787, Jacques-Louis David (French), Oil on canvas (31.45) |
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Diana and Actaeon, ca. 1590–95, Made by Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk (1997.93) |
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The Dream of Aeneas, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Neapolitan), Oil on canvas (65.118) |
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Edward James in Front of On the Threshold of Liberty, 1937, Réné Magritte (Belgian), Gelatin silver print (1987.1100.157) |
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Ernest Hemingway, 1957,
Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, born Turkey),
Gelatin silver print (1986.1098.12) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Anonymous engraver, after Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (49.97.662) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and red-brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer (1992.376) |
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The Falls of Niagara, ca. 1825, Edward Hicks (American), Oil on canvas (62.256.3) |
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The Feast of Acheloüs, ca. 1615, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish); and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish), Oil on wood (45.141) |
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The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Charles Demuth (American), Oil on cardboard (49.59.1) |
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Firdausi Visits the Author to Inspire Him: Page from a dispersed manuscript of the Khavarannama, ca. 1480; Aq Quyunlu, Iran (Shiraz), Ink, colors, and gold on paper (55.184.1) |
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Fireflies over the Uji River by Moonlight, Meiji period, Suzuki Shonen (Japanese), Hanging scroll; ink, gold, and color on silk (1979.72) |
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Fisherman, Yuan dynasty, ca. 1350, Wu Zhen (Chinese), Handscroll; ink on paper (1989.363.33) |
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The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst, 1843, Thomas Cole (American), Graphite and white gouache on green wove paper (1977.182.7) |
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Fragment of A Long Tale for an Autumn Night, Nanbokucho period, late 14th century,
Japan,
Ink and color on paper (2005.312)
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George Lippard, 1850–54, Unknown Artist, American School, Daguerreotype (2000.280)
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Gertrude Stein, 1906, Pablo Picasso (Spanish), Oil on canvas (47.106), |
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The Golden Age, 1605, Joachim Wtewael (Dutch), Oil on copper (1993.333) |
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Gustave Flaubert Beholds His Beloved, 1966, Gerhard Richter (German), Gelatin silver print (2003.234) |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1850s, Albert Sands Southworth (American); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American), Daguerreotype (37.14.40) |
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Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 1524–25, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (49.50.208) |
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo's Dream about the Strife of Love), Author: Francesco Colonna, Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499, Woodcut illustrations with printed text; bound volume (23.73.1) |
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Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine (Kitano Tenjin Engi), Kamakura period, 13th century, Unidentified artist, Japan, Handscroll; ink and color on paper (25.224a–e) |
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Imperial Library of the Louvre, 1856–57, Édouard Baldus (French, born Prussia), Salted paper print from glass negative (1994.137) |
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In the Woods, 1855, Asher B. Durand (American), Oil on canvas (95.13.1) |
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Judgment of Paris, ca. 1510–20, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian); Designed by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian), Italian, Engraving (19.74.1) |
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Khusrau Hunting: Page from a manuscript of the Khusrau and Shirin of Hatifi, dated 1498; Ottoman, Turkey (probably Istanbul), Ink, colors, and gold on paper (69.27) |
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Kylix, ca. 540–530 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Amasis Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1989.281.62) |
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La giostra di Giuliano de' Medici (The Joust of Giuliano de' Medici): Title page (signature 1a),
Author: Angelo Poliziano (Politian),
[Florence: Tubini, Alopa e Ghirlandi?, ca. 1495–1500],
Book with printed text and woodcut illustrations (25.30.22) |
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Lady Lilith, 1867, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British), Watercolor and gouache on paper (08.162.1) |
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Lady of the Xiang River, dated 1947, Fu Baoshi (Chinese), Album leaf; ink and color on paper, Signed: "Baoshi" (1986.267.277) |
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Lady Suhui and Her Verse Puzzle, Ming (1368–1644) or Qing (1644–1911) dynasty, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk (33.167) |
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Lamenting the Death of Adonis, mid-16th century, After Luca Cambiaso (Italian), Woodcut (17.37.33) |
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Land of Cockaigne, after 1570(?), Attributed to Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish), Engraving; first state of two (26.72.44) |
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Landscapes and Trees, Qing dynasty, ca. 1679, Gong Xian (Chinese), Album of twelve paintings; ink on paper (1979.499) |
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Leaf from the Razmnama, ca. 1616–17; Mughal, period of Jahangir, India, Ink, colors, and gold on paper (55.121.30) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 470–460 B.C.; Classical; White ground with red-figure,
Attributed to the Painter of the Yale Lekythos,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (07.286.44) |
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Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), Author: Hartmann Schedel, Illustrators: Michael Wolgemut (German), and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (German), Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493, Woodcut illustrations with printed text; bound volume (1981.1178.29) |
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The Liberation of Oriane, ca. 1590–95,
Karel van Mander (Netherlandish); workshop of Frans Spiering, Delft,
Wool and silk (2006.36) |
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Living Aloft: Master Liu's Retreat, dated 1543, Wen Zhengming (Chinese), Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper (L.2001.85.2) |
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Mephistopheles in Flight, 1828, Eugène Delacroix (French), From Goethe's Faust, Paris, C. Motte, 1828, Lithograph (17.12) |
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Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, 1624, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (71.56) |
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The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, 1866, Julia Margaret Cameron (British), Albumen silver print from glass negative (41.21.15) |
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Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold), 1888; this cast, 1890, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (17.104) |
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Mrs. William Morris (Jane Burden, 1840–1914),
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British),
Red, black, and white chalk on paper (47.66) |
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Naval Battle between Trojans and Greeks, 1538, Giovanni Battista Scultori (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving printed in brown ink (53.600.996)fi |
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Nolan neck-amphora with triple handles, ca. 470–460 B.C.; red-figure,
Attributed to the Achilles Painter,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (25.189.2) |
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Nymphs and Satyrs in a Landscape, 1599 or before,
Joseph Heintz the Elder (Swiss),
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, red chalk, heightened with white body color, on yellow tinted paper (2007.174) |
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Omnia vincit Amor, 1599, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bolognese) (17.3.1853) |
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Orchids and Rocks, Muromachi period (1392–1573), Gyokuen Bompo (Japanese), Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper (1975.268.38) |
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Outer robe (uchikake) with scenes of filial piety, Edo period, late 18th century, Japan, Resist-dyed and embroidered silk crepe (49.32.109) |
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Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgare (Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Vernacular), by Giovanni Bonsignore, 2d ed. (Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 1501), Woodcut illustrations by 15th-century Venetian school (22.16) |
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Papyrus fragment with lines from Homer's Odyssey, Early Hellenistic, 285–250 B.C.,
Greek, Ptolemaic (09.182.50)
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Parallèlement, 1900, Pierre Bonnard (French), From Paul Verlaine's Parallèlement, Paris, A. Vollard, 1900, Color lithograph (1970.713) |
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"Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night," 1886,
Dora Wheeler (American), for Associated Artists (New York City),
Silk embroidered with silk thread (2002.230) |
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Pity, second impression, ca. 1795, William Blake (British), Color print finished with pen and ink and watercolor, sheet, (58.603) |
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Planting Chrysanthemums, Ming dynasty Lu Zhi (Chinese), Hanging scroll; ink and pale color on paper (1986.266.3) |
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Plate (Piatto), 1532, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1131) |
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Poem page mounted as a hanging scroll, Momoyama period, dated 1606, Painting by Tawaraya Sotatsu (Japanese); Calligraphy by Hon'ami Koetsu (Japanese), Ink on paper decorated with gold and silver (1975.268.59) |
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The Poet, Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish), Etching, only state (30.54.69) |
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Poetry, ca. 1465–67, Engraving with applied gilding (59.570.32); The Muse Euterpe, ca. 1465–67, Ferrarese school, Engraving (19.52.18) |
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Polyphemus and Galatea in a Landscape, last decade of 1st century B.C.; mid-Augustan, Third Style, Roman, Fresco (20.192.17)ar |
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Portia (Kate Dolan), 1886, Sir John Everett Millais (British), Oil on canvas (06.1328) |
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Portrait of a Young Man, 1530s, Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine) Oil on wood (29.100.16) |
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The Power of Cupid (Jupiter Disarmed), ca. 1530–50, Master of the Die (active Rome), after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.328) |
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The Punishment of Evil Counselors, 1864,
Gustave Doré (French),
From Dante's The Vision of Hell (Inferno), London, Cassell, 1866,
Wood engraving (21.36.133) |
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Quatriregio (Four Realms): Signatures B2v and B3,
Author: Federico Frezzi,
Florence: For Piero Pacini da Pescia, July 26, 1508,
Book with printed text and woodcut illustrations (21.4.1) |
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The Rape of Ganymede, 1505–15, Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (Italian, active northern Italy and Rome), Woodcut (25.2.9) |
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Relief plaque, ca. 450 B.C.,
Greek, Melian, Terracotta (25.78.26) |
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Returning Home, Qing dynasty, ca. 1695, Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese), Album of twelve paintings; ink and color on paper (1976.280a) |
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Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887–88; this cast, 1910, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (12.76.1) |
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A Scene in a Library, 1843–44
William Henry Fox Talbot (British) Salted paper print from paper negative (2005.100.172) |
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Signature quilt, ca. 1856–63, Adeline Harris Sears (American), Silk with inked signatures (1996.4) |
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Sketch for Jesus the Son of Man, ca. 1923,
Gibran Khalil Gibran (American, born Lebanon),
Pencil and watercolor on paper (32.45.5) |
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger (Plate 42), 1794/ca. 1825,
William Blake (British), Copy Y, ca. 1825,
Relief etchings printed in orange-brown ink, heightened with watercolor and shell gold, with hand-painted decorative borders, (17.10.42) |
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Sorgheloos in Poverty, 1510–1520, North Lowlands, Colorless glass with vitreous paint and silver stain (1999.243) |
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Stanze: Signature a1,
Author: Pietro Aretino,
Venice: Francesco Marcolini, January 23, 1537,
Printed book with frontispiece printed as a chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (37.37.2) |
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Stately Pines on Mount Hua, ca. 1972, Shi Lu (Chinese), Hanging scroll; ink on paper (1986.267.351) |
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Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies (?) (verso), 1642–44, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Drawing in red chalk, background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso) (1973.265) |
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Study for the Modeling Stand of the Ugolino Group, ca. 1860,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French),
Pen and brown ink (1975.98.1) |
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Su Dongpo in Straw Hat and Wooden Shoes, Muromachi period, second half of 15th century, Artist Unknown, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper (1975.268.39) |
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Tale à la Hoffmann, 1921, Paul Klee (German), Watercolor, pencil, and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with metallic foil (1984.315.26) |
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Tale of a Strange Marriage, Edo period, ca. 1858, Ukita Ikkei (Japanese), Handscroll; ink and color on paper (57.156.7)
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Talismanic shirt, 15th or early 16th century,
India (north India or the Deccan),
Ink, gold, and colors on stiffened cotton (1998.199) |
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The Tomb of Sir Walter Scott, in Dryburgh Abbey, 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot (British), Salted paper print from paper negative (1997.382.4) |
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Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French),
Saint-Béat marble (67.250) |
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Ulysses at the Table of Circe: Plate 16 of The Odyssey of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman R.A., 1805, John Flaxman (British), Printmaker: James Parker (British), London, England, Etching (1977.595.53) |
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Venus and Adonis, ca. 1556–57, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), after Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (53.522.28) |
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Venus and Adonis, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (49.7.16) |
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Vertumnus and Pomona, ca. 1760–70, François Boucher (French), Brown chalk (60.176.2) |
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Vivien and Merlin, 1874, Julia Margaret Cameron (British), Albumen silver print from glass negative, Published in Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and Other Poems, 1874 (52.524.3.5) |
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Wang Xizhi Watching Geese, Yuan dynasty, ca. 1295, Qian Xuan (Chinese), Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper (1973.120.6) |
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Women of Allah: From Way In Way Out portfolio (published 1996), 1994,
Shirin Neshat (American, born Iran),
Pen and ink on photograph (1997.129.8) |
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Zoe, Maid of Athens, 1866?, Julia Margaret Cameron (British), Albumen silver print from glass negative (1997.382.38) |
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