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- Title
- The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
- Artist
- Jan van Hemessen
- Physical Description
- This painting depicts the interior of a room where four men are grouped around a table. They are painted as half-length figures, and their forms fill the foreground. They are painted in warm tones of brown, red and green and dressed in 16th century Netherlandish clothing. There is a king, wearing a pointed crown, who, with his right arm awkwardly crossed over his left, points to another man across the table. He has a furrowed brow and his mouth is partially open as if he is speaking. Next to him is a man looking downward, intently counting coins piled on the table. The third man pauses while writing in a book, his hand with the pen is stopped in mid-air, and looks back at the king. The fourth man, on the other side of the table, has his hands clasped in a pleading gesture and his eyes meet the gaze of the king. Items in the room and on the table such as books, scissors, a money bag, and an hourglass, are painted in great detail. In the upper right, a small outdoor scene, painted in tones of light green, shows an imaginary cityscape with a man being dragged into an underground chamber by some soldiers.
- Artist Life Dates
- c. 1500-c.1575
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1556
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.108
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Picchvai
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- The piece portrays a central god, with many milkmaids surrounding him. There are louts flowers present, as well as hills and buildings at the top of the painting. There are also various incarnations of gods, which are the blue-skinned figures.
- Object Creation Date
- 1700-1850
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.289
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Salvation of the Elephant (Gaj Mokasha)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- An elephant seems to walk on water from the bottom right corner of the composition, rising towards Vishnu in the upper left with a single lotus flower in its trunk. Vishnu, with 4 arms, steps on green hills surrounding the lotus covered pond, bending towards the elephant. Garuda flies in the upper right.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1815
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.27
- Medium and Support
- paint on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Descent of the River Ganges
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand
- Physical Description
- In this intensely lyrical painting from Bundelkhand in Central India, the great river is shown tumbling from the night sky. Ascetics sit cross-legged on the mountainside, offering their austerities to Shiva, while women come to venerate Ganga. The river teems with life—crocodiles, turtles, fish, and birds—while lions, leopards, jackals, monkeys, and rabbits cavort on its banks.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1775
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.148
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Markendeya purana series: Bhavana on tiger confronts a demon / Rama and Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The image is split into two unequal parts; a lower and upper. In the lower half of the image the figures are all holding weapons. The background of the image is red with the majority of the figures being yellow in color. A single blue figure is located in the lower left. This figure is seated on a wheeled, vehicle.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.304
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Markendeya purana series: Vishnu reclining on a serpent (Anantashayana), with other deities in attendance
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on the serpent Ananta (“the endless one”), resting on the surface of the cosmic ocean. As his female consort gently strokes his leg, Vishnu awakens from a long sleep. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, who will begin a new cycle of the universe.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.305
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Drawing for a Ramayana series: Rama, Lakshmana and Sugriva in conference (fol. 204)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills
- Physical Description
- Rama and Lakshmana sit under a tree with the King of the monkeys, surrounded by monkeys. Some monkeys have taken to flight in the upper corners of the drawing. With a few deft strokes the artist conveys the swiftly changing emotions of the moment, as the monkeys respond with astonishment, empathy, and action to Rama’s pleas.
- Century
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.149
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva and his family
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Physical Description
- In this idyllic scene, the goddess Parvati offers her husband Shiva a drink, as they enjoy a quiet moment together. Their children, the elephant-headed Ganesha and Skanda, play inside a tent made from the hide of an elephant demon that Shiva had slain. Both parents are clothed in animal skins, the garb of mountain-dwelling ascetics, while Shiva is further adorned with a long necklace of skulls and a snake.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1790-1800
- Accession Number
- 1942.4
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and a monk in a landscape from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting illustrates a verse from a Digambara Jain manuscript that likens the capacity of praising the Jina to destroy sins to the way the sun obliterates darkness; it shows a sun with the face of a Jina illuminating the sky. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.172
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting is a rare depiction of the Jina’s first preaching. It is said that the speech of the Jina is like no other and that miracles occur upon hearing it. Here the Jina is depicted with four heads, representing the miraculous ability to see from all four directions at once. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.173
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Peach Blossom Spring
- Artist
- Chen Shaomei (aka Ch'en Shao-mei)
- Physical Description
- In this long narrative landscape, our eyes trace the journey of the fisherman, who may be standing in the distance on the left. His boat can be seen tucked behing a rock, and the mouth of a small cave. Pink petals of peach blossoms adorn the trees along to shore of a stream.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1909-1954
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930-1954
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.21
- Medium and Support
- ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mary's Little Lamb
- Artist
- John Kane
- Artist Life Dates
- 1860 - 1934
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1910-1934
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.180
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000