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- Title
- Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Artist Life Dates
- 1798-1863
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.75
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Cover of Ann Arbor Shahnameh (First heading)
- Artist
- Shiraz and Timurid Schools
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1460
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.39C
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Healing Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ethopian Orthodox Ethiopia
- Physical Description
- Long narrow strip of parchment with writing in red and black pigment; image at top shows a face with large eyes in a square with eight radiating triangles (Solomon's Seal); image at bottom shows a winged figure holding a sword (archangel). Rows of eyes border the images.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.159
- Medium and Support
- parchment, pigment on leather scroll
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Picchvai
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Painting on cloth in an array of colors that depicts a religious scene. There are assorted animals such as monkeys and cows with red hand prints on them.
- There is a river at the fore of the painting with flowers and lily pads in it. The painting has a colorful floral border.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1700-1850
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.288
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Râmâyana manuscript page: Rama kills the deer (folio no. 31)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Malwa School
- Physical Description
- The artist has captured the story of the deer hunt with the fewest possible elements, in a way that is instantly recognizable and yet takes liberties with the classical tale. The forest is represented by two trees and a few sprays of foliage; the deer is a mundane gray, not magical gold; and Sita waits anxiously in a white marble pavilion, rather than a thatched hut. The vibrantly colored backgrounds divide the composition into zones that create mood and organize the narrative.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1635-1650
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.111
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The birth of the Kauravas from a Mahabharata series
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene takes place in a red box, lined with black and red diamond and triangle designs for borders. In the center, a woman sites with a child in her lap. She wears a spotted dress, her hair up, and a nose ring and bindi. The child reaches one hand and places it atop her head, and the other down towards her own upward hands. Surrounding them are seven other figures. One kneels before them, offering his hands up, and another fans the woman from behind. The remaining five figures seem to play together in front of the throne on which the woman and child sit.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.19
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu on Ananta
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
- Physical Description
- Two figures in a landscape; one a reclining blue-skinned figure, the other a seated female
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.132
- Medium and Support
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Warriors going into battle from a Mahabharata series
- Artist
- India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
- Physical Description
- Three warriors march forward, taking up nearly the entire frame. Blue soldiers carring weapons and shields bring up the front and rear. They appear to move through a stylized tree landscape.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century - mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.150
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Fragment from a Markendeya Purana scroll: Vishnu on the pipal leaf
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The blue four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on a gigantic pipal leaf with his left leg crossed over his right leg; as his female consort gently strokes his leg, he awakens from a long sleep. Another woman fans him. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, and rishis or sages appear in the upper branches of the pipal tree. Vishnu has four arms carrying a discus and a conch in his back hands and the lower left arm is extended pointing towards the women at his feet while the lower right am is cross towards his stomach.
- The iconography is further compounded by the image in the lower register of a tortoise at the bottom of the ocean of milk, bearing a mountain on his back. The tortoise is in fact Kurma, another manifestation of Vishnu, supporting the cosmic axis. Elephants have gathered to pay homage to him, while in a small inset at right, a worshipper pays homage to Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. A large red figure faces the scene to the right accompanied by small blue figures to his sides as if behind him. Two sages, one horse-headed, are to the upper right.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.306
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and worshipper
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- In the upper register of this folio a woman holds a child who is crowned and adorned with jewels. The golden hue of the infant, along with the fan held above their heads signifies the child’s importance. They sit in devotion before a Jina, indicated by his nudity—a trademark of Digambara Jina and a sign of purity.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.165
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Death of Leander
- Artist
- Giulio Carpioni
- Physical Description
- In dark turbulent waters under a stormy sky four nude sea nymphs support the body of a long-haired man between them on a white shroud. The face of a man with kelp in his hair appears between two of the nymphs. On the right a bearded man with a trident in his right hand rides in a chariot fashioned from a seashell and pulled by two fished-tailed horses or hippocampi. Just visible in the distance behind the back of the rightmost nymph, a lofty tower rises above the waves.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1613-1678
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1655
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.290
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- "Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style
- Physical Description
- Krishna, in blue, and Balarama are portrayed in identical poses and wearing peacock-feather headdresses. The paunchy bearded figure at right is their mentor, Sandipani. Two other, older students appear at left. They are seated, approximately equidistantly spaced, in an architectural structure that organizes the space.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1525-1550
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.104
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
- Artist
- Sebastiano Conca
- Physical Description
- Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1680 - 1764
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.159
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Annunciation
- Artist
- Mariano Salvador de Maella
- Physical Description
- In this painting, rendered entirely in gray monochrome, a technique known as grisaille, an angel descends on a bank of clouds toward a woman who kneels on the floor before a prie-dieu. She looks downward and turns away from the angel in a gesture of humility, and her head is illuminated by the light from a luminescent dove in the cloud above her. A bearded man looks down from the summit of the cloud, nearly engulfed in light, and a number of cherubim appear throughout the scene. The robust forms and grounded materiality of the woman's body and the furniture around her give way to light-filled clouds and diffused forms in the upper part of the canvas as the heavenly and worldly realms come together.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1739-1819
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1780
- Accession Number
- 1967/1.37
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000