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Title

Burmese Prayer Book with Manuscript Pages (total of 20 pages)

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

This prayer book consists of 20 pages written on the front and back in the Myanmar language. It is decorated in golds and reds with black text.

Accession Number

2012/1.280.1

Medium and Support

paper and paint on wood board

relevance

rank 8.98955

Secondary Keywords

document genres

document genres by function

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religious texts

Title

Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.

Century

13th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1290

Accession Number

1993/2.10

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 8.64792

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Leaf from a Bible with decorated initial and vegetal ornament

Artist

Artist Unknown, Armenia

Physical Description

This page from a manuscript features two columns of text written in Armenian. An animal-shaped initial, composed of two stylized birds pecking one another, appears in the lower right column. The lower left margin is decorated with a sidebar that elegantly combines geometric and plant motifs. The decorative elements are painted in pink and blue with touches of reddish orange.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

early 15th century

Accession Number

1958/1.162

Medium and Support

ink on glazed paper

relevance

rank 8.45951

Secondary Keywords

layout features

asia (continent)

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religious texts

Title

Leaf from a psalter or book of hours (Psalm 26)

Artist

Artist Unknown, England or France

Physical Description

This manuscript leaf contains a single column of text in Latin surrounded by generous margins on three sides. Pen-flourished initials elaborated with delicate penwork, colored red and blue alternating with gold and purple, mark the beginning of each verse along the left edge of the text column. Five line-fillers, long linear elements colored blue and gold, complete the closing line of each verse and preserve the regular shape of the text block.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1400-1450

Accession Number

1965/2.81

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 8.44643

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Title

Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence

Artist

Ludovico de Gaci

Physical Description

This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, "C," of the opening word "Confessio" is made from a curved vegetal form. The text is preceded by a painted miniature in a circular frame that is, in turn, enclosed by a golden square. The miniature depicts a man with a tonsure and a golden halo standing in a verdant landscape. He holds a palm leaf in his left hand and rests his right hand on a grill. The left and upper margins of the page are decorated with green and pink leaves and flowers and small gold circles.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1489

Accession Number

1986/2.85

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 8.37774

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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europe (continent)

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italy (nation)

liturgical texts

lombardy (region)

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people and culture

religions

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religious texts

Title

Movie and Minstrel Show Posters on Brick Wall, Demopolis, Alabama

Artist

Walker Evans

Physical Description

A black and white photo of the side of a building that has advertisements posted. One ad is for a movie, "The Roaring West," while the other is for the " J. C. Lincoln's Sunny South Big Tent Show."

Artist Life Dates

1903-1975

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1935-1936

Accession Number

2011/2.7

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 8.15555

Secondary Keywords

color

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Title

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1400-1425

Accession Number

1993/2.9

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 7.85053

Secondary Keywords

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religions

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Title

La Revue Blanche

Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Physical Description

Colors: turquoise, green, dr. green, lt. green, red, coral, royal blue. Previously folded in half at center. Some bubbling of the paper at top right. Paper size: lh 129cm & rh 128 4/5cm x w 93 1/2cm. Image size: lh 123 1/2cm & rh 124 4/5cm x tw 90cm & bw 89 3/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1864-1901

Accession Number

2008/2.363

Medium and Support

color lithograph on beige wove paper

relevance

rank 7.66755

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

california (state)

declaratory and advertising artifacts

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geographic and political locations

information artifacts

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information forms

los angeles (county)

north and central america (continent)

objects we use

people

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people by gender

planographic prints

prints

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united states (nation)

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

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 7.46231

Secondary Keywords

armed conflicts

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Title

The Flood

Artist

Artist Unknown, Dutch

Physical Description

In an ominous landscape a crowd of nude men, women and children, their bodies silhouetted against the descending gloom, struggle frantically to escape rising floodwaters. The figures gesture wildly and strenuously twist their long athletic bodies into a seemingly infinite variety of contortions as they clamber up the last hilltops and trees. A city stands on a hill and appears through the trees in the background.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1590

Accession Number

1985/2.70

Medium and Support

oil on panel

relevance

rank 7.27731

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

bible

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old testament

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religious texts

visual works

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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 7.25873

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Eve Tempted by the Serpent

Artist

Defendente Ferrari

Physical Description

A nude woman with long hair flowing down her back grasps a tree branch with her right hand and bends it downward in order to more easily pluck the green fruit dangling at its tip with her left hand. Her white body contrasts starkly with the darker tones of the surrounding landscape. The less conspicuous figure of a serpent with the head of a bearded man coils about the trunk of the tree next to the woman and fixes her with his stare.

Artist Life Dates

active 1500-1535

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1520-1525

Accession Number

1967/1.38

Medium and Support

tempera on panel

relevance

rank 6.95009

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

bible

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Title

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

A seated king, at the left, holds the hand of a swooning woman who is supported by another woman. The supporting woman looks back at the king.

Artist Life Dates

1591-1666

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1639

Accession Number

1978/2.41

Medium and Support

pen, brown ink and brown wash on cream colored laid paper

relevance

rank 6.49778

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

aristocracy

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social classes by specific type

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upper class

Title

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Servants

Artist

Nöel Hallé

Physical Description

This painting shows the interior of a large prison room. There is a thick stone wall and iron grating. Three figures are the focal point of this composition. One man, in a dark blue cloak, is standing and faces two other men who stare intently at his face. One of them is seated with a leg iron, on a stone bench and the other leans on a stone ledge. They are are dressed in simple brown cloaks. The standing figure has a raised left arm and is gesturing with his hand outstretched toward the other figures.

Artist Life Dates

1711-1781

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1747

Accession Number

1984/1.287

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 6.26808

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

arms

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institutional buildings

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people

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the human body

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Title

Saint Maria, Saint Claude, Saint Norbert, and Saint Robert from Israel Henriet's "Images of the Saints" (Plate 48)

Artist

Jacques Callot

Physical Description

Four oval illustrations of different scenes of saints helping others.

Artist Life Dates

1592-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1636

Accession Number

2013/2.540

Medium and Support

etching on laid paper

relevance

rank 6.00284

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

bishops (prelates)

christian clergy

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people in religion

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religions

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tools and equipment

walking sticks

Title

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

A bearded man, wearing majestic red robes with a large ermine collar and a green turban surmounted by a crown, sits on a throne at left. He leans forward, holding a long thin scepter in his right hand while touching his chest with his left. Before him stand two women supporting a third, who has fainted. This third woman wears a splendid blue robe ornamented with a row of opulent clasps, a luxurious golden cloak lined with pink fabric, and a crown that seems to tilt precariously on the back of her head. The man looks intently into the face of the fainted woman, while the two women, in turn, watch his expression closely.

Artist Life Dates

1591-1666

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1639

Accession Number

1963/2.45

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 5.93364

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

bible

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Title

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Artist

Gaspare Traversi

Physical Description

The half-length figure of a woman looks directly out of the painting and holds the bearded head of a man on a platter in her hands. She wears a fine robe with large white sleeves and collar, a soft hat with a small white feather, and a bejeweled pin on her left shoulder. The face of an older woman with deeply wrinkled skin appears in the shadows behind her.

Artist Life Dates

1722-1724 - circa 1770

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1760

Accession Number

1996/2.16

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 5.77837

Secondary Keywords

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