The Virgin with the Blessing Child in a Landscape, c. 1480 - 1538
Albrecht Altdorfer
Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others, 1606 - 1669
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Old Rag Picker, 1834 - 1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Illustrated Manuscript of the Divan of Shah Qasim Anvar
Persian
Denarius of Augustus, Rome, r. 27 BCE - 14 CE
Augustus
Coin of Basil II, r. 976 - 1025
Basil II
Illuminated frontispiece (illuminated text, recto; text, verso), left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Qasim
Miniature Volute Lamp
Roman
New Year Print: Rooster Brings "Gong Ming" ("Honors") and an Auspicious Pendant Couplet Reading "Tian Zi Wan Nian" ("To the Emperor, Ten Thousand Years")
Chinese
New Year Print: Nine Phoenixes Flying to the Sun
Chinese
Door God: Heavenly Official with Five Sons
Chinese
Paper God: God of Wealth Who Increases Fortune Holding a Ruyi Scepter with Four Attendants
Chinese
Paper God: God of Happiness
Chinese
Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (Daihannya-haramitta-kyō) Vol. 244
Japanese
Saint Catherine ("The Little Jewish Bride"), 1606 - 1669
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Depths of the Sea, 1833 - 1898
Edward Burne-Jones
Imaginary View of Padua, 1697 - 1768
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Ralph Venning, 1607 - 1677
Wenceslaus Hollar
Stefano della Bella, 1607 - 1677
Wenceslaus Hollar
Hispanus, c. 1553 - 1619
Hieronymus Wierix