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Painted Dado Panels
9th century

Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu
1646

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck
ca. 1440–50

Vajrapani
India (Kashmir)
late 6th–7th century

Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)
Capodimonte Painter
ca. 320–310 BCE

Jurōjin
Kamisaka Sekka

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes
ca. 1496

Amida, the Buddha of Limitless Light
Japan
ca. 1250

Orchids and Rock
Gyokuen Bonpō
late 14th–early 15th century

Melons
Yamada Dōan
late 16th century

Bhadra, The Sixth Luohan
Unidentified artist
dated 1345

The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity
Master of the Dominican Effigies
ca. 1325

Stele commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅)
China
dated 544 (completed 2nd year of Wuding reign)

The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti (base of stele)
China
inscription dated 533–43

The Companions of Rinaldo
Nicolas Poussin
ca. 1633

Inscribed Pen Box
made in early–late 14th century; altered shortly before mid-15th century

Iconographic Drawing of the Bodhisattva Memyō (Ashvaghosha)
Japan
12th century

The Brioche
Edouard Manet
1870

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Carolingian
early 9th century

Descent of Eleven-Headed Kannon
Japan
14th century

Shaka (Shakyamuni) Triad
Japan
13th century

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)
900–1100 CE

Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)
Japan
late 12th century

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus
ca. 1445

Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (Myōō-bu shoson)
Japan
12th century

Ōtsu-e of Shōmen Kongōyasha (Vajrayaksha)
Japan
17th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch
ca. 1475

Flask with the Adoration of the Magi
Byzantine
500s

Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders
12th–early 13th century

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni
1627

White-Robed Kannon
Japan
13th century

Mandala of Vajradhara, Manjushri and Sadakshari -Lokeshvara
Unidentified artist
dated 1479

Two Poems from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets
Hon'ami Kōetsu
ca. 1615–20

Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses
ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Scene from the Life of the Buddha
Japan
early 15th century

Woodcutters and Fishermen
Matsumura Goshun
ca. 1790–95

Segment of a Crozier Shaft
North Spanish
late 12th century

White-Robed Kannon
Japan
15th century

Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats
Akkadian
ca. 2350–2150 BCE

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1760s