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Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)
Capodimonte Painter
ca. 320–310 BCE
Jurōjin
Kamisaka Sekka
Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes
ca. 1496
Amida, the Buddha of Limitless Light
Japan
ca. 1250
Orchids and Rock
Gyokuen Bonpō
late 14th–early 15th century
Melons
Yamada Dōan
late 16th century
Bhadra, The Sixth Luohan
Unidentified artist
dated 1345
The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity
Master of the Dominican Effigies
ca. 1325
Stele commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅)
China
dated 544 (completed 2nd year of Wuding reign)
The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti (base of stele)
China
inscription dated 533–43
The Companions of Rinaldo
Nicolas Poussin
ca. 1633
Inscribed Pen Box
made in early–late 14th century; altered shortly before mid-15th century
Iconographic Drawing of the Bodhisattva Memyō (Ashvaghosha)
Japan
12th century
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Carolingian
early 9th century
The Brioche
Edouard Manet
1870
Descent of Eleven-Headed Kannon
Japan
14th century
Shaka (Shakyamuni) Triad
Japan
13th century
Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)
900–1100 CE
Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)
Japan
late 12th century
Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (Myōō-bu shoson)
Japan
12th century
The Annunciation
Petrus Christus
ca. 1445
Ōtsu-e of Shōmen Kongōyasha (Vajrayaksha)
Japan
17th century
Flask with the Adoration of the Magi
Byzantine
500s
The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch
ca. 1475
Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders
12th–early 13th century
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni
1627
Mandala of Vajradhara, Manjushri and Sadakshari -Lokeshvara
Unidentified artist
dated 1479
White-Robed Kannon
Japan
13th century
Two Poems from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets
Hon'ami Kōetsu
ca. 1615–20
Cylinder seal and modern impression: rows of animals; falcons flanking goat, Taweret goddesses
ca. 18th–17th century BCE
Scene from the Life of the Buddha
Japan
early 15th century
Segment of a Crozier Shaft
North Spanish
late 12th century
Woodcutters and Fishermen
Matsumura Goshun
ca. 1790–95
White-Robed Kannon
Japan
15th century
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1760s
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1670–72
Cylinder seal and modern impression: snake god and deities with hands and feet in the form of snakes, scorpions, and goats
Akkadian
ca. 2350–2150 BCE
The Trinity Adored by All Saints
Spanish Painter
Crozier Head with Lamb of God
Sicilian or North Italian
13th century
Vasudhara Mandala
Nepal
dated to 1777 (Samvat 897)