12th Century A.D.

  • Essays (81)
  • Works of Art (178)
  • Chronology (33)
  • Vishnu
    2015.678
  • Wall Painting of Male Saint
    2000.526
  • Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame
    17.190.673
  • Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame
    17.190.670
  • Seated Kubera
    1987.142.320
  • Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Deities
    1983.555.2,.3
  • Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript
    1987.246
  • Fragment
    58.85.2
  • Tile
    46.174
  • Bowl with Bahram Gur and Azada
    57.36.2
  • Apse from San Martín at Fuentidueña
    L.58.86
  • Buddha Sakyamuni
    2012.458
  • Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu
    41.138
  • Doorway
    25.120.878
  • Dainichi Nyoprai
    26.118
  • Iconographic Drawings of Five Myōō
    1975.268.6
  • Kongoyasha Myoo
    1975.268.12
  • Daiitoku Myoo
    1975.268.13
  • Eagle Attacking a Fish (one of five medallions from a coffret)
    17.190.689
  • Bath scraper
    26.102.7
  • Corbel with Five Interlaced Hair-Pulling Acrobats
    34.21.2
  • Vase with Incised and Impressed Designs
    1984.496.33b
  • Inkwell with twelve Zodiac medallions
    44.131
  • Mortar and pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
    91.1.527a,b
  • Strand of beads
    48.101.70
  • Reliquary Cross
    2002.18
  • Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty
    17.190.514
  • The Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Durga Mahishasuramardini)
    2008.271
  • Portion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat
    47.101.21
  • Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers
    1987.275
  • Processional Cross
    2008.502
  • Double-sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator
    1994.403
  • Chess set
    1971.193a-ff
  • Earrings and Pendant
    2007.340
  • Pair of Earrings
    2006.273a,b
  • Cloudy Mountains
    1973.121.1
  • Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
    2007.286
  • Segment of a Crosier Shaft
    1981.1
  • Bird Pendant
    1992.121
  • The Crucifixion
    2007.189
  • Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator
    2007.9
  • Goblets with applied decoration
    2000.279.1,.2
  • Bird-shaped oil lamp
    2001.470
  • Bottle
    2005.318
  • Double Capital with Masks and Birds
    28.81
  • Ceremonial Knife (tumi)
    1987.394.216
  • Illuminated Psalter
    2001.730
  • Round Box Brooch
    1982.323.2
  • Eagle Relief
    93.27.2
  • Textile with coiled dragons
    1989.205
  • Carpet
    62.156
  • Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha
    1993.479
  • Buddha Sheltered by a Naga
    1987.424.19ab
  • Plaque with scenes from the life of the Buddha
    1982.233
  • Female Figure (Tunjo)
    1979.206.1050
  • Three Serpents (Tunjos)
    1979.206.740,1992.92.1,2
  • Double Eagle Pendant
    1979.206.907
  • Pectoral Disk (Patena)
    1977.187.28
  • Feline Bottle
    64.228.17
  • Pair of Figures
    1987.394.635,.636
  • Pair of Earflares with Multifigure Scenes
    1991.419.67,.68
  • Mirror Frame
    1995.428
  • Eagle Pendant
    1977.187.22
  • Figure Pendant
    69.7.10
  • Monkey Vessel
    1979.206.1156
  • Alligator Censer
    1979.206.378a,b
  • Bat-Nosed Figure Pendant
    1979.206.1155
  • Pendant
    1978.412.117
  • Masked Figure Pendant
    1979.206.777
  • Face Neck Bottle
    1970.246.6
  • Bird Pendant
    1974.271.12
  • Seated Figure Vessel
    1988.117.11
  • Masked Figure Pendant
    1991.419.31
  • Winged Pendant
    1994.35.606
  • Necklace Beads
    2002.231
  • Miniature Dress
    1979.206.639
  • Bowl with Two Rabbits
    1978.412.118
  • Frog Pendant
    1991.419.1
  • Hunchback Leaning on Staff
    1978.412.17
  • The Temptation of Christ by the Devil
    61.248
  • Enthroned Virgin
    17.190.716
  • Water bottle (Kundika)
    23.115
  • Gourd-shaped ewer with decoration of waterfowl and reeds
    27.119.2
  • Melon-shaped ewer with decoration of bamboo
    1996.471
  • “Devadatta,” Chapter 12 of the Lotus Sutra
    65.216.1
  • Bird Pendant
    1979.206.509
  • Head Vessel
    1981.158
  • Figure Vessel
    1988.117.10
  • Flat Stamp
    1991.436.4
  • Camel
    61.219
  • Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)
    25.120.60
  • Bowl with Fish
    2000.322
  • Central Plaque of a Cross
    17.190.409a
  • Standing Buddha
    1993.235.1
  • Top of a Bell in the form of a demon king or guardian
    1987.142.17
  • Bust of Hevajra
    36.96.4
  • Bowl
    1978.412.123
  • Bowl, Head on Rim
    79.8.10
  • Reliquary Cross with Saint George
    2000.526.2
  • Portion of a Pilaster Capital with an Acrobat
    47.101.25
  • Saint-Guilhem Cloister
    25.120.1-.134
  • Folio from a Qur'an manuscript
    29.160.23
  • Bottle with sprinkler top
    1998.234
  • High-Tin Bronze Bowl
    2000.57
  • Mirror
    42.136
  • Molded horse and rider with cheetah
    66.23
  • Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River
    1984.174
  • Pillow with hawk hunting a swan (spring hunt)
    1985.214.132
  • Tea Bowl with “Hare’s-Fur” Glaze
    91.1.226
  • Basin with Lotus Decoration
    26.292.98
  • Poet Strolling by a Marshy Bank
    1989.363.14
  • Quatrain on Spring's Radiance
    1989.363.12
  • Dish
    24.172.1
  • Vase with Dragonfish Handles
    50.145.301
  • Textile Fragment from the Shrine of San Librada, Sigüenza Cathedral
    58.85.1
  • Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
    1996.294.1
  • Bowl with prince on horseback
    51.53
  • 1993.24
  • Ewer with Phoenixes
    26.292.73
  • Scholar viewing a waterfall
    1973.120.9
  • Belt Slide with a Falcon Attacking a Goose
    1991.483
  • Arch with Beasts
    22.58.1a
  • Cross
    1998.542
  • Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily Blessed by Bishop Reginald of Bath
    63.160
  • Game Piece with Hercules Throwing Diomedes to his Man–Eating Horses
    16.106
  • Revetments from an Icon of the Virgin
    17.190.644
  • Dish
    1979.210
  • Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book
    1991.232.1-.14
  • Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
    47.100.45
  • Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric Lead Motifs (back)
    17.190.679
  • Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame
    17.190.678
  • Tip of a Pointer
    1997.235
  • The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
    50.180a-l
  • Oliphant
    17.190.218
  • Manuscript Illumination with Initial V, from a Bible
    1999.364.2
  • Architectural Frieze
    1980.263.1
  • Chasse of Champagnat
    17.190.685
  • Processional Cross
    17.190.1406
  • Leaf from the Epistle to the Hebrews
    1991.232.15
  • Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty
    17.190.757
  • Shiva as Mrityunjaya, the Conquerer of Death
    1991.421
  • Standing Vishnu as Keshava
    18.41
  • Buddha Shakyamuni or Akshobhya, the Buddha of the East
    1995.106
  • Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes
    1984.479.1a,b
  • The Buddha Amitayus attended by bodhisattvas
    1989.284
  • Figure: Head
    1979.206.296
  • Cache-Sexe
    1998.478.4
  • Figure: Male
    1985.422.2
  • Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
    17.190.520
  • Chess Piece in the Form of a Bishop with Two Attendants
    17.190.229
  • Enthroned Virgin and Child
    47.101.15
  • Morgan Casket
    17.190.241
  • Trefoil-shaped covered box with decoration of chrysanthemums
    25.215.41a,b
  • Oil bottle with decoration of peony leaves
    17.175.9
  • Mirror with decoration of figures in a landscape
    25.219.4
  • Textile with Animals, Birds, and Flowers
    1988.296
  • Finches and Bamboo
    1981.278
  • Princely figure with jeweled crown
    67.119
  • Ewer
    44.15
  • Square Tile
    1975.193.5
  • Tile panel with sphinx
    1976.245
  • Pyxis (cylindrical container)
    1998.298a,b
  • The Goddess Durga Killing the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasura Mardini)
    1993.7
  • Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
    1982.220.8
  • Chakrasamvara Mandala
    1995.233
  • Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and the Noli Me Tangere
    17.190.47
  • The Cloisters Cross
    63.12
  • Christ Presenting the Keys to Peter and the Law to Paul
    1979.399
  • Cuxa Cloister
    25.120.398-.954
  • Virgin and Child in Majesty
    16.32.194
  • Head of King David
    38.180
  • Column Statue of a King
    20.157
  • Plaque with the Pentecost
    65.105
  • Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut
    35.50
  • Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
    62.189
  • Crucifix
    35.36a,b
  • Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi
    51.56
  • Bowl with astronomical and royal figures
    57.36.4
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