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White Flower
O’Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects whose magnified forms fill the entire space of each canvas. Likely inspired by similar compositions in modern photogr…
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In the Palace
In the Palace depicts 13 ladies of the imperial household, three servants, and six children in fluent baimiao (plain drawing) brushwork, accentuated by color. The women …
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The Trinity
Fundamental to Christian belief, the Holy Trinity refers to the three divine persons in God—God the Father, here depicted wearing a papal tiara, God the Son, crucified o…
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Landscape
Kyoto-based painter Sōami adapted the small-format Chinese album leaf and handscroll painting compositions belonging to the Ashikaga shogunate to the large-scale paintin…
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Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike
Drawing from Japanese literature, Yosa Buson copied almost the entire text of the “Moon Viewing” episode from The Tale of the Heike , a story of the rise and fall of the…
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Still Life
Preston Dickinson’s composition presents a seemingly casual arrangement of eggplants and lemons amid a tabletop setting with a bowl, knife, and napkins. A loosely corked…
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Woman Ironing
This spare painting depicts a woman ironing a garment, while a sliver of light illuminates the side of her face and the cup held in her left hand. The subject belongs to…
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Seated Arhat with Two Attendants
Arhat, or Lohan (羅漢 in Chinese), were the disciples of the historical Buddha. Later tradition tended to picture them in sets of 16, 18, or as many as 500. This is one …
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The Lock at Pontoise
Pissarro was instrumental in developing the radically new Impressionist technique of painting quickly outdoors to capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. The r…
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Mt. Qingbian
Dong Qichang radically transforms the landscape composition into a purely abstract design. He organizes the mountain forms to achieve an overall sense of structure, acti…
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Processional Cross
This cross was originally mounted on a tall pole and carried in religious processions. Therefore, the figures on each side are almost identical. In the center is Christ …
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Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf H (previous leaf 8)
Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao pa…
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Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf G (previous leaf 7)
Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao pa…
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Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf A (previous leaf 4)
Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao pa…
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Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf D (previous leaf 2)
Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao pa…
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Head of Saint John the Baptist
Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepfather Herod that he offered her anything she wanted. Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome prese…
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Seven Leaves from a Manuscript of the Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
These pages come from a long horizontal book of 355 palm leaves, now dispersed among many collections. Featuring the pilgrim Sudhana on his quest to reach enlightenment,…
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Portrait of a Woman
How do you conserve a painting when portions are missing? The mid-treatment image (below) shows the painting after cleaning, when earlier restorations had been removed. …
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Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid)
On June 22, 1639, King Philip IV of Spain received a letter from his younger brother Ferdinand (1609–1641). The letter explained that the artist Peter Paul Rubens had re…
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Scenes of Witchcraft
A huge upturn in interest in witchcraft emerged during the 1500s in Europe, but by the middle of the next century—at least among the cultured elite of Florence—a backlas…
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Tarquinius Priscus Entering Rome
Originally the front of a bridal chest, this panel was later removed and framed like a painting. At left, the Etruscan prophetess Tanaquil foresees her husband’s entry i…
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Banks of the Oise at Dawn
Louis Hayet was an important, early practitioner of Neo-Impressionism, or Pointillism, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of paint so that from a distance th…
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Portrait of a Woman
Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified, she was likely affiliated with the Medici cou…
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The Park-Winter
During the 1920s, Kroll earned a great deal of success painting scenes of everyday urban life. In this example, he depicted ice skaters on a pond in snow-covered Central…