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A


cAbbasid Period, The Art of the (750–1258 A.D.)
Abraham (65.14.1)
Abridged List of Rulers
Abridged List of Rulers
Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, The (17.50.16)
Adam (36.163)
Adam and Eve (19.73.1)
Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars (1988.433.1)
Adoration of the Magi (1975.1.122)
Adoration of the Magi (48.149.15)
Adoration of the Magi (Detail) (1986.285.1,2)
Adoration of the Magi, The (11.143)
Adoration of the Magi, The (1996.262)
Adoration of the Magi, The (21.132.2)
Adoration of the Shepherds, The (25.120.288)
Age of Exploration, Europe and the
Age of Exploration, The: Early Encounters
Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck (1985.328.2)
Aksum (1st–7th century A.D.)
Aksum (1st–7th century A.D.)
"Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs..." (125.97D932)
Album leaf (67.266.7.8R)
Alexander Visits the Sage Plato: Page from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (13.228.30)
All Saints in an Initial E: Cutting from an Antiphonary (1975.1.2484)
Allegorical Design (recto), Stage Design (verso) (17.142.2)
Allegory of Music (50.189)
Almoravid and Almohad Periods, The Art of the (ca. 1062–1269 A.D.)
Altar Angels (52.33.1,2)
Altar Frontal (69.106)
Altar Frontal (69.106)
Altarcloth (29.87)
Amitabha Triad (30.76.298)
Amphora (56.171.38)
Amphora (63.11.6)
Amphora (56.171.14)
Ampulla (Flask) of Saint Menas (27.94.19)
Amulet (1978.546.32)
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1–500 A.D.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1000–1400 A.D.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1400–1600 A.D.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 2000–1000 B.C.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 500–1000 A.D.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, 8000–2000 B.C.
Anatolia and the Caucasus, Geography of
Anatomical Studies: A Left Forearm in Two Positions and a Right Forearm (1996.75)
Anatomy in the Renaissance
Ancestral Shrine Figure (1979.206.476)
Ancient Greek Dress
Animal carpet (1990.61)
Animal flask (1999.145)
Animal-headed ewer (38.40.247)
Animals in Medieval Art
Anklet (26.4.110A)
Anne de Pisseleu (1508-1576), Duchesse d'Etampes (29.100.197)
Annunciation, The (19.76.9)
Annunciation, The (1975.1.113)
Annunciation Triptych, The (56.70)
Anthropomorph (L.1985.42.3)
"Antioch Chalice", The (50.4)
Antiquity in the Middle Ages
Antonine Dynasty, The (138–193 A.D.)
Apollo (41.190.534)
Apollo 11 Cave Stones (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.), Wonderwerk Cave Stones (ca. 8000 B.C.)
Apollo Belvedere (49.97.114)
Apothecary Jar (Orciuolo) (1975.1.1061)
Appliques (98.11.71)
Apse (L.58.86)
Aquamanile: Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis (1975.1.1416)
Aquamanile in the Form of a Mounted Knight (64.101.1492)
Arabian Peninsula, 1–500 A.D.
Arabian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D.
Arabian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Arabian Peninsula, 1400–1600 A.D.
Arabian Peninsula, 2000–1000 B.C.
Arabian Peninsula, 500–1000 A.D.
Arabian Peninsula, 8000–2000 B.C.
Arabian Peninsula, Geography of
Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit (29.9.2a-v)
Archers (detail) (22.1.23)
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall (16.133)
Architectural Frieze (1980.263.1)
Architectural roundel (1985.240.1)
Architecture in Ancient Greece
Architecture in Renaissance Italy
Armet with Wrapper (20.150.1)
Armlet (57.88a-c)
Armor (29.154.3)
Armor (38.137)
Armor for Field and Tournament (19.131.1,2)
Armor for Heavy Cavalry (27.177.1,2)
Armor for Henry II of France (39.121)
Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (33.164)
Armor of George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland (32.130.6)
Armor (yoroi) (14.100.121)
Armorial Gemellion (49.56.8)
Armorial Plate (Tondino) (1975.1.1019)
Armors for Man and Horse (29.151.2,32.69)
Arms and Armor in Medieval Europe
Arms and Armor in Renaissance Europe
Arretine cup signed by Tigranes (10.210.37)
Arrowhead (26.253.59)
Arrowheads (1991.314.3-8)
Art of the Book in the Ilkhanid Period, The
Aryballos (26.49)
Askos in the form of a deer (74.51.795)
Assembly of the Birds: Page from a manuscript of the Mantiq al-tair (The Language of the Birds) of Farid al-Din cAttar, The (63.210.11)
Assumption of the Virgin in an Initial A: Cutting from an Antiphonary (11.50.1)
Assumption of the Virgin, The (1975.1.58)
Assumption of the Virgin, The (27.39.1)
Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict, The (29.164)
Astrolabe (91.1.535a-h)
Astronomical Table Clock (17.190.747)
Astronomicum Caesareum (25.17)
Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794 A.D.)
Asymmetrical wine container (hu) (49.135.9a)
Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques
Athletics in Ancient Greece
Attarouthi Treasure, The (1986.3.1-15)
Augustan Rule (27 B.C.–14 A.D.)
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion Seated in Royal Ease (1992.336)
Avar Treasure (17.190.1674-1712)
Avaritia (Greed) (26.72.31)
Ayyubid Period, The Art of the (ca. 1171–1260 A.D.)


B     


"Baby Figure" (1979.206.1134)
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat (1986.1159)
Bahram Gur Hunting with Azada: From the Shahnama (Book of Kings) (57.51.32)
Bahram Gur in the Turquoise Pavilion: Page from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (13.228.7folio224v)
Balkan Peninsula, 1–500 A.D.
Balkan Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D.
Balkan Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Balkan Peninsula, 1400–1600 A.D.
Balkan Peninsula, 500–1000 A.D.
Ball Player (?) (1989.28)
Ballcourt Marker (1980.418)
Bamboo in Wind (1989.235.1)
Bannerstone (1979.206.403)
Baptism of Christ, The (12.130.1)
Barbarians and Romans
Barkcloth Panel (Masi) (1977.395.5)
Barrel oinochoe (1975.363)
Basin (26.292.98)
Basin (91.1.521)
Basin (91.1.565)
Basin (pen) (L.1996.55.6)
Basin with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent (41.100.173)
Bat-Nosed Figure Pendant (1979.206.1155)
Bathing ensemble (1979.346.18a,b)
Battle about Money, The (26.72.40)
Battle of Naked Men (17.50.99)
Beaker (1974.45)
Beaker ("Monkey Cup") (52.50)
Beaker with birds and animals (47.100.88)
Beaker-shaped Vessel (1984.494.6)
Bell (1988.20.7)
Bell (dotaku) (18.68)
Bell krater (23.160.80)
Bell krater depicting the return of Persephone (28.57.23)
Bell-krater (24.97.30)
Belles Heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry, The (54.1.1)
Belt Buckle (1988.305ab)
Belt Buckle (1995.54)
Belt buckle (18.33.1)
Belt Buckle, Buckle Counter Plate, and Back Plate (17.193.161)
Belt buckle: paired felines attacking ibexes (17.190.1672)
Belt clasp (21.166.5)
Belt or harness ornament with an eagle and its prey (17.190.2055)
Belt plaque with three ibexes (28.68.4)
Belt slide (1991.483)
Bench Figure (1979.206.1123)
Benin Chronology
Bible (1997.320)
Bifolium, from a Manuscript of the Decretals of Gratian (1990.217)
Big Fish Eat Little Fish (17.3.859)
Bird Figure (1996.373.2)
Bird Head (1978.412.1504)
Bird Palma (00.5.59)
Bird Pendant (1993.302)
Bird Pendant (1993.114)
Bird Pendant (1979.206.1138)
Bird Vessel (1986.45)
Bird-Headed Figure Whistle (1978.412.80)
Bird-shaped Vessel (1997.34.1)
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons (1987.342.1,2)
Birth of Cupid, The (41.48)
Birth of the Buddha (1987.417.1)
Birth of the Buddha, The (1993.478.1)
Birth of the Virgin, The (35.121)
Bishop Chess Piece (17.190.229)
Bishop of Assisi Handing a Palm to Saint Clare, The (1984.343)
Bishop Saint in Prayer Seen in Bust-length (1995.306)
Bizhan Forces Farud to Retire into His Fort: Page from a dispersed manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) (20.120.247)
Black Thanka with Goddess Lha Mo (1983.510.1)
Blackwater Draw (ca. 9500–3000 B.C.)
Bodhisattva of Wisdom (Tikshna-Manjushri) (2001.59)
Book Cover (10.203.3)
Book Cover Plaque: Christ in Majesty (17.190.757)
Book Cover (?) with Ivory Figures (17.190.134)
Book in the Middle Ages, The Art of the
Bookbinding: From a manuscript of the Mantiq al-tair (The Language of the Birds) of Farid al-Din cAttar (63.210.67)
Bookcover with scenes from the life of the Buddha (1979.511)
Bottle (41.150)
Bottle (1978.412.85)
Bottle (27.119.6)
Bottle (x.21.210)
Bottle (08.138.2)
Bottle (1975.268.184)
Bottle (Florero) (1979.205.6)
Bottle (kundika) (23.115)
Bottle (Refredador) (94.4.358)
Bottle with a sprinkler top (1998.234)
Bottle with flattened side (1994.226)
Bow Brooch (55.56)
Bow Brooch with Disk (47.100.25ab)
Bow-shaped fitting (26.203.2)
Bowl (63.159.4)
Bowl (65.106.2)
Bowl (57.36.4)
Bowl (1977.126)
Bowl (63.178.1)
Bowl (18.56.36)
Bowl (65.270.1)
Bowl (51.53)
Bowl (61.144)
Bowl (2000.57)
Bowl (1978.412.123)
Bowl (79.8.10)
Bowl (40.170.15)
Bowl (2001.266)
Bowl (1974.74)
Bowl (1982.48.3)
Bowl (1985.356.19)
Bowl (17.120.70)
Bowl (1983.557.2)
Bowl (32.33)
Bowl (34.151)
Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark (18.145.1ab)
Bowl, Geometric Pattern (1977.394.31)
Bowl (Tecomate) (1989.314.18)
Bowl (upper part of a tazza) (17.190.643)
Bowl with Fish (2000.322)
Bowl with Human Feet (10.176.113)
Bowl with Lizards (1993.79.3)
Bowl with painted decoration (57.99.2)
Bowl with Pair of Rabbits (1978.412.118)
Bowl with radiating petal design (66.116)
Bowl with three fish (59.60)
Box with a lid (91.1.538)
Box with Aristotle and Phyllis (17.190.173ab,1988.1.6)
Box with lid (1996.3ab)
Box with Sleeping Eros (47.100.33)
Bracelet (1975.268.388)
Bracelets and Necklace (1998.480.6,8;1999)
Bracteate (2001.583)
Brahma (Pomch'on) (21.57)
Brazier (91.1.540)
Bridal Chamber of Herse, The (41.190.135)
British Isles, 1000–1400 A.D.
British Isles, 1400–1600 A.D.
British Isles, 500–1000 A.D.
Bronze rod tripod (74.51.5684)
Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance
Bronze waterspout in the form of a lion mask (74.51.5677)
Brooch (53.48.6)
Brooch (47.100.19)
Brooch in the Form of a Bird of Prey (1991.308)
Brooch in the form of a stag (21.166.3)
Brooch in the Form of a Winged Insect (1993.263)
Brooch in the Shape of a Horse (1992.107)
Brooch in the Shape of a Panther (47.100.18)
Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere) (1975.1.1043a)
Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder (ca. 1525/30–1569 A.D.)
Buckle (95.15.103ab)
Buckle (1990.62ab)
Buckle (1986.341)
Buckle in the Shape of an Eagle (95.15.100a,c)
Buckle with Seated Couple (47.101.48)
Bucranium (16.2.23)
Buddha (1981.188ab)
Buddha (69.222)
Buddha Amitayus attended by bodhisattvas, The (1989.284)
Buddha, Life of the
Buddha sheltered by a naga (1987.424.19ab)
Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsha Heaven (28.31)
Buddha's First Sermon at Sarnath (1980.527.4)
Buddhist Guardian: Chandamaharoshana (1994.452)
Buddhist Guardian Mahabala, The (1995.570.4)
Buddhist stele with two Bodhisattvas (30.122)
Buffalo (1976.297.2)
Buffaloes in Combat (1983.258)
Burgonet (17.190.1720)
Burgonet with Falling Buffe (04.3.217,22.140)
Burgundian Netherlands: Court Life
Burgundian Netherlands: Private Life
Bursa Reliquary (53.19.2)
Bust of a Lady of Rank (66.25)
Bust of a Lady of Rank (66.25)
Bust of a warrior (1975.268.414)
Bust of Francis I (41.100.245)
Bust of Hevajra (36.96.4)
Bust of Marie de France (1327-1341), Daughter of Charles IV of France (41.100.132)
Buzurjmihr Masters the Game of Chess: From the so-called First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings) (34.24.1)
Byzantium (c. 330–1453 A.D.)


C     


Cadmus Fighting the Dragon Who Had Killed His Men (49.97.570)
Caftan (1996.78.1)
Cage animal flask (69.153)
Calling of Matthew, The (71.155)
Calyx-krater (1972.11.10)
Camel Led by His Keeper, A (25.83.6)
Camel with packboards and baggage (2000.8)
Cameo portrait of the emperor Augustus (42.11.30)
Cameo with Christ Emmanuel (1987.23)
Cameo with Hercules (38.150.23)
Canopic Jar Lid (30.8.54)
Canopy with phoenixes (1988.82)
Cape (06.941)
Capital (36.68.1)
Capital (30.95.134)
Capital with Bust of the Archangel Michael (1983.167)
Capital, with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (25.120.60)
Carpet (10.61.3)
Carpet (53.79)
Carpet (58.63)
Carpet with pictorial design (17.190.858)
Carved Bowl (2000.60)
Casket (17.190.241)
Casket with Warriors and Mythological Figures (17.190.237)
Cassone (14.39)
Cavalry Armor (38.148.1a-n)
Cavalry Helmet (Zischagge) (14.25.611)
Celestial Globe with Clockwork (17.190.636)
Celestial Map of the Northern Sky (51.537.1)
Celestial Map of the Southern Sky (51.537.2)
Censer (17.190.360_av1)
Censer Cover (Xantil) (1978.412.10)
Censer (Incensario) (1979.206.378a,b)
Censer Support (1978.412.99)
Censer with Seated Figure (1982.394)
Centerpiece (1977.216.37)
Central Africa, 1400–1600 A.D.
Central America, 1–500 A.D.
Central America, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 1–500 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 1000–1400 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 1400–1600 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 2000–1000 B.C.
Central and North Asia, 500–1000 A.D.
Central and North Asia, 8000–2000 B.C.
Central Europe (including Germany), 1000–1400 A.D.
Central Europe (including Germany), 1400–1600 A.D.
Central Europe (including Germany), 500–1000 A.D.
Central Plaque of a Cross (17.190.409a)
Central watchtower (1984.397)
Central Zone, The
Ceramic bowl (40.170.25)
Ceremonial Ax (2000.284.67)
Ceremonial Ax (2000.284.67)
Ceremonial Handle (?) (1979.206.1132)
Ceremonial Metate (1978.412.94)
Ceremonial Metate (1979.206.887)
Ceremonial Metate (1979.206.429)
Ceremonial object in the form of an ax head (1993.525)
Chalice (1988.66)
Chalice (1996.287)
Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato (1988.67)
Chalice, Paten, and Straw (47.101.26-29)
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil (1989.121)
Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480-1550) (12.194)
Chapter House (35.50)
Chariot (03.23.1)
Chariot Cup (1997.34.2)
Chariot Mount with Three Figures (47.100.42)
Chariot Trappings (2000.505a-o)
Charity (65.110)
Charles V Manuscript Leaf (31.134.8)
Chasse of Champagnat (17.190.685)
Chasuble (27.162.1)
Chauvet Cave
China, 1–500 A.D.
China, 1000–1400 A.D.
China, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
China, 1400–1600 A.D.
China, 2000–1000 B.C.
China, 500–1000 A.D.
China, 8000–2000 B.C.
Chlorite vessel with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees (17.190.106)
Chopine, The
Chrismatory (17.190.853)
Christ and the Adulteress (1982.60.35)
Christ Bearing the Cross (29.158.746)
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor and His Family (Triptych of a Protestant Family) (17.190.13-15)
Christ Blessing the Children (1982.60.36)
Christ Carrying the Cross (35.27)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (32.100.82)
Christ Giving the Keys to Peter (29.55.1,2)
Christ on the Road to Calvary (1996.581)
Christ Presenting the Keys to Peter and the Law to Paul (1979.399)
Christianity in Ethiopia, African
Christianity in Kongo, African
Cippus (funerary altar) of Cominia Tyche (38.27)
Circular Pendant (1984.300)
Clappers (32.5.2a,b)
Classic Kerma Beaker (20.2.45)
Classic of Filial Piety, The (1996.479)
Claviorganum (89.4.1191)
Cloister of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert (25.120.1-.134)
Cloisters Cross, The (63.12)
Closed Yoke (69.237)
Coconut Cup with Cover (17.190.622ab)
Coldstream Stone, The
Collecting and the Kunstkammer
Collector's Cabinet (25.135.112)
Colosseum (41.72[1.59])
Column Figure of a Nimbed King (20.157)
Column surround with pensive woman (1992.151)
Column-krater (31.11.11)
Comb (30.8.224)
Commesso (17.190.907)
Composite Capital (41.72[2.24])
Container in the shape of a horse and rider (66.23)
Container with spiral decoration (2000.284.53)
Contest between Athena and Poseidon, The (49.97.589)
Coptic Manuscript (19.196.5)
Coptic Manuscript (19.196.3)
Cornetto in A (52.96.1)
Coronation of the Virgin, The (1975.1.38)
Corpus of Christ (1978.521.3)
Cosmetic flask (10.130.2649)
Cosmetic Jar in the Form of a Cat (1990.59.1)
Costumed Figure (1979.206.953)
Courtly Art of the Ilkhanids
Cover for a Buddhist manuscript (1984.479.1b)
Covered jar (hu) (1992.165.20ab)
Crib of the Infant Jesus (1974.121)
Cross Pendant (1998.542)
Crossbow Fibula (1995.97)
Crowning with Thorns, The (2001.167)
Crozier with Serpent Devouring a Flower (17.190.833)
Crucifix (35.36ab)
Crucifix (47.100.54)
Crucifix (1999.295.4)
Crucifix (1999.295.8)
Crucifixion (1999.85)
Crucifixion, The (43.161)
Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, The (33.92ab)
Crucifixion, The, (one wing of a diptych) (61.200.1)
Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret, The (88.3.88)
Crusades, The (1095–1291 A.D.)
Cult of the Virgin, The
Cult vessel in the form of a tower (68.155)
Cuneiform tablet case (66.245.5b)
Cup (1974.15)
Cup (1987.85)
Cup with a frieze of gazelles (62.84)
Curb Bit (04.3.478a,b)
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant (91.1.1166)
Cuxa Cloister, The (25.120.398,.399,.452)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene (41.160.192)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshipper below a canopy flanked by winged genies (1989.361.1)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper approaching bearded god (1991.368.5)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor (1987.343)
Cylindrical box (1971.39)
Cylindrical Pyxis (1970.234.5)
Cylindrical Vessel (1982.207.7)
Cylindrical Vessel (1982.207.6)
Cylindrical Vessel with Throne Scene (1999.484.2)


D     


Dürer, Albrecht (1471–1528 A.D.)
Dado Fragment (40.170.176)
Dado panel (1970.327.8)
Dagger hilt (02.18.765)
De humani corporis fabrica (53.682)
Dead Christ with the Virgin, Saint John, and Angels, The (17.190.913)
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece
Death in the Middle Ages
Death of the Historical Buddha (Nehan-zu) (12.134.10)
Decorative Cartouche with a River God and Symbols of Francis I (2001.514)
Dedicatory Inscription Panel (1981.320)
Deep bowl with sculptural rim (1992.252.1)
Deep Dish (brasero) (56.171.162)
Deified king (?) (1988.355)
Deity Figure (1979.206.1069)
Deity Figure (Zemi) (1979.206.1209)
Descent from the Cross (29.56)
Descent from the Cross: Cutting from a Missal (49.7.8)
Desidia (Sloth) (26.72.34)
Diadem (98.11.67)
Diadem (2000.281.1)
Diadem with kinnaris (1988.395)
Diana and Actaeon (1997.93)
Dinner dress (CI43.85.2a,b)
Diogenes (17.50.1)
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection (1980.366)
Diptych with the Last Judgment and Coronation of the Virgin (1970.324.7ab)
Dirty Bride, or, The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa, The (32.63)
Dish (1979.210)
Dish (24.172.1)
Dish (1983.247)
Dish (1979.412)
Dish (14.40.727)
Dish (19.28.10)
Dish (1992.72.39)
Dish (29.100.93)
Dish (46.85.30)
Dish in the Form of a Temple (55.135.5)
Dish: The Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche (1984.195)
Dish with design of peonies (1989.157)
Dish with recumbent elephant surrounded by clouds (1998.213)
Dish with scalloped rim (1993.338)
Disk Brooch (17.191.134)
Disk Brooch (17.193.83)
Disk Brooch and Two Pendants (1987.90.1-3)
Disk Brooch with Cameo and Cabochons (95.15.101)
Disk with running dogs surrounding a mountain goat (21.166.1)
Domestic Art
Donatello (ca. 1386–1466 A.D.)
Door (23.67.7)
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf (32.145a,b)
Doorway (47.100.45)
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean (32.147)
Double Crocodile Pendant (1979.206.733)
Double Cup (1983.125ab)
Double Eagle Pendant (1979.206.538)
Double page from a Divan (Anthology) of Sultan Husain Baiqara (1982.120.1folio35r)
Double Virginal (29.90)
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol of Emperor Charles V (14.25.1425)
Double-Chambered Vessel (1978.412.90a,b)
Double-End Animal Pendant (1991.419.18)
Double-handled vessel (1997.34.25)
Double-sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator (1994.403)
Dragon Pine (1984.475.3)
Dragonesque Brooch (1980.450)
Drawings, Renaissance: Material and Function
Dream of Queen Maya, The (1976.402)
Dress (41.65.2)
Dress (2001.702a)
Dress ornaments (24.97.50,51)
Drinking Cup (13.125.28A)
Drowning of Britomartis, The (42.57.1)
Drum model with four frogs (2000.284.57)
Dutch and Flemish Artists in Rome, 1500–1600 A.D.


E     


Eagle Pendant (1977.187.22)
Eagle Relief (93.27.2)
Eagle Transformation Figure (1994.380)
Earring in the form of a three-lobed wineskin (1995.366)
Earrings (22.50.5,.6)
Earrings (98.11.94-95)
Easter Island
Eastern and Southern Africa, 1000–1400 A.D.
Eastern and Southern Africa, 1400–1600 A.D.
Eastern and Southern Africa, 500–1000 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 1–500 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 1000–1400 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 1400–1600 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 2000–1000 B.C.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 500–1000 A.D.
Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 8000–2000 B.C.
Eastern Mediterranean, Geography of the
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 1–500 A.D.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 1000–1400 A.D.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 1400–1600 A.D.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 2000–1000 B.C.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 500–1000 A.D.
Eastern Mediterranean, The, 8000–2000 B.C.
Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C.
Echidna Figure (1984.123.1)
Egypt, 1–500 A.D.
Egypt, 1000–1400 A.D.
Egypt, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
Egypt, 1400–1600 A.D.
Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.
Egypt, 500–1000 A.D.
Egypt, 8000–2000 B.C.
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden (1989.141.3)
Elements from a Necklace (17.190.161a-j)
Elements from a necklace (1989.87a-l)
Elements of a Ceremonial Horse Armor (1997.242a-c)
Elements of a Light-Cavalry Armor (14.25.716)
Elements of a Light-Cavalry Armor (1991.4)
Elephant Clock: Leaf from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari, The (57.51.23)
Elizabethan England
Embroidered Square with Animals, Birds, and Flowers (1988.296)
Embroidery with the Annunciation (1990.350)
Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known as Caligula, The (14.37)
Ensemble (1990.152)
Enthroned King (22.31.2)
Enthroned Virgin (17.190.716)
Enthroned Virgin and Child (47.101.15)
Enthroned Virgin and Child (41.190.283)
Enthroned Virgin and Child (1999.208)
Entombment of Christ, The (1982.60.398)
Epiphany, The (11.126.1)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (19.73.120)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469?-1536) (1975.1.138)
Eucharistic Dove (17.190.344)
Evening ensemble (1979.344.11a,b)
Evening ensemble (1993.345.15a-c)
Evening gown (1985.155)
Evening gown (CI50.21.12)
Evening gown (1997.116.1a,b)
Evening gown (1997.116.38a-c)
Evening gown (1994.192.12)
Evening gown (CI56.60.6a,b)
Evening gown (1994.414.6)
Evening gown (1973.139)
Evening gown (1995.28.6a)
Evening gown (1999.328.4)
Evening gown with wrap (1996.498.2a,b)
Ewer (47.100.90)
Ewer (44.15)
Ewer (91.1.586)
Ewer (26.292.73)
Ewer (41.65)
Ewer (38.40.240)
Ewer (55.121.1)
Ewer (1979.353)
Ewer (17.190.2045)
Ewer (44.14.2)
Ewer and Basin (53.225.29,04.9.20)
Ewer in the form of a phoenix (1992.72.1)
Ewer signed by Tayyib ibn Ahmad Barmasi (x.21.191)
Ewer with Wild Man Finial (53.20.2)
Eyck, Jan van (ca. 1380/90–1441 A.D.)
Eye idol (1988.323.8)
Eynan/Ain Mallaha (10,000–8200 B.C.)


F     


Fabulous Beast (Fragment of a Tapestry), A (1990.211)
Face of Senwosret III (26.7.1394)
Faceted Bowl (59.34)
Famous Makers and European Centers of Arms and Armor Production
Farnese Hercules (41.72[2.63])
Farnese Table (58.57)
Fasciculo di medicina (38.52)
Fasting Siddhartha (1987.218.5)
Fatimid Period, The Art of the (909–1171 A.D.)
Feast of the Gods at the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, The (2000.113)
Fell's Cave (9000–8000 B.C.)
Female Figure (1980.83.15)
Female Figure (1979.206.223)
Female Nude (17.190.467)
Feudalism and Knights
Field Ensign (36.25.1961)
Fierce Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom (1982.220.13)
Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, The (1987.290.3a-p)
Figure (50.211.264)
Figure (1976.194)
Figure (67.119)
Figure (1982.48.6)
Figure of a bull (47.100.85)
Figure of a woman (06.1151)
Figure Pendant (1978.412.152)
Figure Pendant (69.7.10)
Figure Vessel (1979.206.606)
Figures of the Mourning Virgin and Saint John (1971.92.1,.2)
Filippo Archinto, Archbishop of Milan (14.40.650)
Finches and Bamboo (1981.278)
Finger Ring with a Cross (17.192.229)
Firdausi Visits the Author to Inspire Him: Page from a dispersed manuscript of the Khavarannama (55.184.1)
Fish Hacha (1978.412.151)
Fisherman (1989.363.33)
Five Appliques in the Shape of a Cross (95.15.79-.83)
Flask (1972.274)
Flask with Adoration of the Magi (1984.196)
Flask-Shaped Bottle (1986.305)
Flavian Dynasty, The (69–96 A.D.)
Floral medallions (1996.103.1)
Florence and Central Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.
Flying Panel Metate (1986.200)
Foliate Ornament (29.16.1)
Folio from The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux: Calendar Page for November (Gathering Acorns) (54.1.2_folio_11v)
Folio from the Kevorkian Album (55.121.10.7V)
Folios from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Folios from the Jami' al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
Fontainebleau
Footed Bowl (1977.394.59a)
Footed bowl (tazza) (91.1.1538)
Footed cup (91.1.559)
Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion (48.180)
Fountain Figure of a Winged Infant (1983.356)
Four deities from a Vajradhatu (Diamond World) Mandala (1987.142.5,7-9)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (19.73.209)
Four Scenes from the Passion (41.190.14)
Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion (67.234)
Four-Master and Two Three-Masters Anchored near a Fortified Island with a Lighthouse (59.534.23)
Fourteen Auspicious Dreams of the Jinaaes Mother: Page from a Dispersed Jain Kalpa Sutra (Book of Rituals), The (1992.359)
Fragment from a Figure, Head (1995.64.18)
Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with Cross and Rosette Medallions (10.176.37)
Fragment from a Qur'an manuscript (1972.279)
Fragment from the Eleusinian Relief (14.130.9)
Fragment of a Bowl (55.135.7)
Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider (1984.181)
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis (1998.69,1999.99)
Fragment of a Lintel (69.15)
Fragment of a Sarcophagus (25.120.590)
Fragmentary plate (40.170.131)
Fragments of a carpet (14.40.723)
Fragments of a jacket (31.14a,b)
France, 1000–1400 A.D.
France, 1400–1600 A.D.
France, 500–1000 A.D.
Francesco d'Este (born about 1430, died after 1475) (32.100.43)
Frankish "Claw" Beaker (81.10.189)
Frederick III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony (46.179.1)
Fresco, Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages
Frieze tile (12.44)
Frieze tile with phoenix (12.49.4)
Frieze tile with two hunters (10.9.1)
Frog Ornaments (1998.39.1-.20)
Frog Pendant (1991.419.1)
Frog Pendant (1979.206.846)
Frog Yoke (1978.412.15)
Front of a cuirass (1992.180.3a)
Frontispiece of the Apocalypse (25.2.68)
Fulani/Fulbe People and their Art, The
Fulani/Fulbe People, The
Funeral of Isfandiyar: Page from a Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings), The (33.70)
Funeral Procession: Page from a manuscript of the Mantiq al-tair (The Language of the Birds) of Farid al-Din cAttar (63.210.35)
Funerary altar (25.78.29)
Funerary plaque (54.11.5)
Funerary Stela with Architectural Frame (36.2.6)
Funerary urn (hunping) (1992.165.21)
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls (32.161.46)


G     


Game Pass
Game Piece (16.106)
Garden of the Unsuccessful Politician (1979.458.1)
Geometric Weights (1994.312.3,4)
German Sculpture, Late Medieval
German Sculpture, Late Medieval: Images for the Cult and for Private Devotion
German Sculpture, Late Medieval: Materials and Techniques
German Sculpture, Late Medieval: Polychromy and Monochromy
Ghana Empire, The Empires of the Western Sudan
Ghent Altarpiece, The
Gibbons (1992.8.1,2)
Gift of Anathapindada, The (1987.142.1)
Girdle (1998.478.4,5)
Girdle with Coins and Medallions (17.190.147,1991.136)
Glass alabastron (74.51.312)
Glass from Islamic Lands
Glass from Islamic Lands, Blown
Glass from Islamic Lands, Cut and Engraved
Glass from Islamic Lands, Enameled and Gilded
Glass from Islamic Lands, Hot-worked
Glass from Islamic Lands, Mosaic
Glass from Islamic Lands, Stained, or Luster-Painted
Glass with Mold-Blown Decoration from Islamic Lands
Goblet (65.173.1)
God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo II, The (34.2.1)
Goddess Durga as Slayer of the Buffalo-Demon Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini), The (1986.498)
Goddess Durga Killing the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini), The (1993.7)
Goddess: The Classical Mode
Gold Disk from a Spool (47.100.14)
Gold kantharos (drinking cup with two high vertical handles) (07.286.126)
Gold of the Indies
Gold stater (26.59.2)
Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius, A (1975.1.110)
Gopis Beseech Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Page from the Dispersed "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu), The (1972.260)
Gothic Art
Granary (20.3.11)
Grapevine in the Wind (1994.439)
Grave stele of a little girl (27.45)
Grave stele of a youth and a little girl (11.185a-c,f,g)
Grave stele with a family group (11.100.2)
Gravestone with funerary banquet (02.29.1)
Great Serpent Mound
Great Teacher Marpa, The (1995.176)
Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century)
Greek Gods and Religious Practices
Grotesque Head: Man in Profile to Right (17.142.3)
Group of four vases (1989.281.45a,b-.48)
Guillaume Bude (46.68)
Guinea Coast, 1000–1400 A.D.
Guinea Coast, 1400–1600 A.D.
Guinea Coast, 500–1000 A.D.
Gushtasp Slays the Rhino-Wolf: From the Gutman Shahnama (Book of Kings) (1974.290.23v)


H     


Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (13.228.13)
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.)
Hand Hacha (1979.206.1042)
Handle of a hydria (06.1093)
Handle-shaped ornament (1985.214.96)
Haniwa Boar (1975.268.418)
Haremhab as a Scribe (23.10.1)
Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari [Krishna]) (28.63.1)
Harness Decoration (48.154.5)
Harness Pendant with Confronted Beasts (1990.52)