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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 12.17187

Secondary Keywords

books

books by external form

exchange media

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

monarchs

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

people by occupation

people in government and administration

rulers (people)

Title

Antique Book Leaves with Painted Cover

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

Book leaves with five mythological beings

Object Creation Date

1907

Accession Number

2011/1.120

Medium and Support

wood, ink, paper

relevance

rank 12.12495

Secondary Keywords

books

books by external form

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

Title

Kaze (Shôjo) /Girl in the Wind

Artist

Nakayama Tadashi

Physical Description

A young girl in a yellow shirt is facing the wind. Leaves are being blown around her.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1956

Accession Number

2011/2.10

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 12.10472

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

books

books by external form

earth sciences concepts

folded books

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

physical sciences concepts

prints

prints by process or technique

scientific concepts

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

Title

La Lithographie en Couleurs par Andre Mellerio

Artist

Andre Mellerio

Object Creation Date

1898

Accession Number

2008/2.455

Medium and Support

beige wove paper book

relevance

rank 11.45048

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

books

books by conditions of production

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

lithographs

objects we use

planographic prints

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Page from a Printer's or Engraver's Album: Nine Caricatures, includgin works by Henri Daumer and Jean Théophile Gustave Lesestre

Artist

Honoré Victorin Daumier

Physical Description

Nine charactures of men on the same sheet in various situations.

Artist Life Dates

1808-1879

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2013/2.533

Medium and Support

various media on wood pulp paper mounted on thick paper

relevance

rank 9.97849

Secondary Keywords

image form

books

books by internal form

descriptors

drawing and drawing techniques

image-making processes and techniques

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

visual works

visual works by form

visual works by function

Title

The Happy Life of Fishermen

Artist

Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)

Physical Description

A group of fishermen and families sit in reeds, resting, playing, drinking, eating, and chatting. Birds fly in the backgrounf, and the reeds bend under the wind. At top center is calligraphic text.

Artist Life Dates

(active Suzhou, ca. 1573 - ca. 1620)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1610

Accession Number

1985/2.29

Medium and Support

fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on gold paper

relevance

rank 8.47428

Secondary Keywords

books

books by internal form

buildings and the land

coating (material)

coating by form

costume

costume accessories

costume accessories carried

descriptors

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

inorganic material

landscapes (environments)

materials

materials by composition

materials by function

natural landscapes

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in agriculture or natural resource occupations

people in science-related occupations

physical activities

physical activities by location

physical activities by specific context

plants

scientists and people in science-related occupations

settlements and landscapes

transportation vehicles

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

vehicles

water activities

watercraft

watercraft by general type

woody plants

Title

A wandering Shaivite ascetic with his dog

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Delhi-Agra, Mughal

Physical Description

This work is a double-sided page from a bound album. The painting, depicting a Hindu ascetic walking with his dog in a pastoral landscape, has been placed in a border, decorated with a floral scroll painted in gold on a blue or pale orange ground; a similar border surrounds a calligraphy panel on the reverse side. The border and the calligraphy panel are both somewhat later in date than the painting itself.

The painting of the ascetic and his dog is pasted onto an album page. It is surrounded by a series of gold floral borders alternating blue and saffron-colored backgrounds. Wearing a brown poncho-like garment and carrying a fan in his right hand and a bag of his belongings, the lead attached to his white dog, and some tools in his left, he strides through the landscape. He wears sandals and has long brown matted locks of hair and a graying beard. The landscape consists of intersecting rounded forms in shades of green and yellow, surmounted by trees along the top and with a larger blue-foliaged tree to the right near the horizon. At the bottom a diagonal of yellowish rise of land with clumps of grass suggests some depth and a foreground, but the figure is quite flat in the middle ground.

On the back of the page is a Panel of calligraphy consisting of a quatrain in Shah Jahan's handwriting signed "Sultân Khurram [his given name before he took the name Shah Jahan upon becoming emperor" and dated 1020/1611-12. This is also surrounded by elaborate borders.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

late 16th century - early 17th century

Accession Number

1969/2.175

Medium and Support

opaque watercolor and gold on paper

relevance

rank 6.89124

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

books by internal form

buildings and the land

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

landscapes (environments)

mammals

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

physical activities

physical activities by general context

settlements and landscapes