The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo I as Miura Osuke, Ichikawa Danjuro lV as Okazaki Akushiro, and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Kato Arajiro in the play "Miura no Osuke Bumon no Kotobuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754, 1754

Torii Kiyohiro

The Battlefield, 1652

Karel Dujardin

Koto and New Year’s Offering, illustration for The Akoya Beach Shell (Akoyagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Katsushika Hokusai

Karaori (Noh Costume), 18th century, Edo period (1615–1868)

Christo, Central Park, New York City, 1981

Annie Leibovitz

Les Monuments de Paris (The Monuments of Paris) (Furnishing Fabric), 1816/18

Hippolyte Lebas

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho

Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Mother, n.d.

Cesare Dandini

Geese in a Farmyard, c. 1871

Jean François Millet

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach, 1532

Conrad Faber

Nothing. The Event Will Tell, plate 69 from The Disasters of War, 1812/20, published 1863

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

St. Bartholomew, from Apostles, n.d.

Martin Schongauer

Tureen in the form of a Rabbit, 1755–56

Chelsea Porcelain Factory

Ceremonial Skirt (Sampot Hol), 1900/25

Khmer

The Fourth Wise Virgin, 1480-91

Martin Schongauer

Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso), 1568/69

Federico Barocci

Lady Elizabeth Montagu, 1756

James McArdell

Tray (Opon Ifa), Mid–20th century, probably 1930s

Yoruba

Spain, 1956

Mauricio Lasansky