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A wooden sculpture of a slender person standing upright on a detailed pedestal. They are wearing draped cloth that covers their legs and goes across their shoulder and chest. They are wearing a small headpiece and have short hair.

Standing Arya-Avalokiteshvara (Shō Kannon bosatsu) on a Lotus Base, one from a set of 1,000 images formerly in Kōfuku-ji, Nara

Japanese

A wooden sculpture of a man standing on a small pedestal and holding a staff. His hips are leaned to his left and he is wearing armor and a helmet.

Virūdhaka (Zōchōten), Guardian King of the South, one of the Devarājas (Shitennō), or Four Heavenly Guardian Kings

Japanese

A painted wooden sculpture of a head that is facing the viewer. The head is tilted to the right and is round in shape. The head has long earlobes and wears a black headdress.

Head of a Bodhisattva, d. 1057

Attributed to Jōchō

A wooden sculpture of a head on a wooden pedestal. The sculpture begins at the neck and goes into a round face. They have their eyes closed and long earlobes. Their hair is up and detailed with small bumps. There are small holes in between their eyebrows and at the top of their head.

Head of a Buddha

Japanese

A gilt bronze pendant that is round in shape and is detailed with a floral cut-out pattern. At the center is a long, bronze bow and two birds.

Stylized Fan-Shaped Pendant (Keman) with Decoration of Birds and Flowers, from a set housed at the temple Jōgon-in, Shiga Prefecture

Japanese

Architectural frame, with an emblematic circular bas-relief, representing two half-length figures of winged genii holding an apple between them (Medium tenuere beati.) (Fol. h vii verso)

Architectural frame, with an emblematic circular bas-relief, representing two half-length figures of winged genii holding an apple between them (Medium tenuere beati.) (Fol. h vii verso)

Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1499

Circular Church

Circular Church, 1697 - 1768

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

Sketchbook ("1912 ?"): Sketches for "Hell" and "Judgment" Lunettes, Boston Public Library

Sketchbook ("1912 ?"): Sketches for "Hell" and "Judgment" Lunettes, Boston Public Library, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Court Scene (Seigneuriale tapestry)

Court Scene (Seigneuriale tapestry)

Unidentified Artist

Untitled (pasted Kultur-Festwochen in Belgien pamphlet, pasted reproduction of Europalia model from pamphlet, and notes, left page); Untitled (pasted architectural plan with annotations and pasted reproduction of Europalia model from pamphlet, right page)

Untitled (pasted Kultur-Festwochen in Belgien pamphlet, pasted reproduction of Europalia model from pamphlet, and notes, left page); Untitled (pasted architectural plan with annotations and pasted reproduction of Europalia model from pamphlet, right page), 1928 - 2014

Otto Piene

Album of Kano School Paintings (Kanoha gashū): Landscape, Figure, Architecture and Animal Subjects, by Yasunobu (1613-1685), Dōun (1625-1694), Tsunenobu (1636-1713), Tanshin (1653-1718) and Tansetsu (1654-1713)

Album of Kano School Paintings (Kanoha gashū): Landscape, Figure, Architecture and Animal Subjects, by Yasunobu (1613-1685), Dōun (1625-1694), Tsunenobu (1636-1713), Tanshin (1653-1718) and Tansetsu (1654-1713)

Japanese

The Prophet Muhammad and His Companions at a Feast (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi (The Life of the Prophet) by Mustafa Darir of Erzurum

The Prophet Muhammad and His Companions at a Feast (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi (The Life of the Prophet) by Mustafa Darir of Erzurum

Ottoman

Terracotta sculpture of a helmeted figure sitting against a wide background.

Allegorical Figure, 1598 - 1680

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Architectural frame, surrounding an emblematical piece of sculpture. This emblem is intended to express the sapient precept - Temper hastiness by keeping seated; check sloth by rising up (Velocitatem sedendo, Tarditatem tempera surgendo). (Fol. h vii recto)

Architectural frame, surrounding an emblematical piece of sculpture. This emblem is intended to express the sapient precept - Temper hastiness by keeping seated; check sloth by rising up (Velocitatem sedendo, Tarditatem tempera surgendo). (Fol. h vii recto)

Anonymous Germany

Folio 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)

Folio 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)

Persian

Starlets in the Green Room, Bombay

Starlets in the Green Room, Bombay

Ketaki Sheth

Double-sided Hathor Emblem from a Sistrum

Double-sided Hathor Emblem from a Sistrum

Egyptian

Prayer Carpet

Prayer Carpet

Ottoman

Engraved Tang Mirror

Engraved Tang Mirror

Etruscan

A rectangular textile fragment depicting a four-strand braid motif in yellow, red, white, and off-white on a black ground with a blue stripe above and below the plait.

Fragment: Braid Motif

Byzantine

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