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Colophon of the fourth section (colophon recto; blank verso of folio 188), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Colophon of the fourth section (colophon recto; blank verso of folio 188), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Illuminated sarlawh of the fifth section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 189), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Illuminated sarlawh of the fifth section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 189), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Illuminated margin and interlinear gilt text folio (illumination and gilt recto; text verso of folio 190), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rum

Illuminated margin and interlinear gilt text folio (illumination and gilt recto; text verso of folio 190), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rum

Persian

Text folio (text recto; blank verso of folio 239), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Text folio (text recto; blank verso of folio 239), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Illuminated sarlawh of the sixth section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 240), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Illuminated sarlawh of the sixth section (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 240), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Illuminated margin and interlinear gilt text folio (illumination and gilt recto; text verso of folio 241), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Illuminated margin and interlinear gilt text folio (illumination and gilt recto; text verso of folio 241), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Text folio with the colophon of the sixth section (text recto; blank verso of folio 294), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Text folio with the colophon of the sixth section (text recto; blank verso of folio 294), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

A rectangular carpet with a thick orange border that has a dark green, red, and white geometric floral pattern. At the center is a smaller rectangle space that has a large red shape that is rectangle at the bottom and comes to a diamond shape at the top. It is detailed with a white border and above it is a simple geometric floral motif in green and red with a white background.

Prayer Carpet

Turkish

Tekke Bag Face

Tekke Bag Face

Turkmen

A rectangular textile fragment showing two vertical bands in black depicting lions, rabbits, riders, dancers/hunters, birds, and flowers on a yellowed, off-white ground.

Tunic Front: Riders and Dancers

Byzantine

Portrait of a Youth Wearing Red Trousers and a Green Tunic

Portrait of a Youth Wearing Red Trousers and a Green Tunic

Ottoman

Madhumadhavi Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Madhumadhavi Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Indian

Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna in the arms of their mothers, while their father Dasharatha converses with priests (painting, recto; painting, verso), illustration from a Ramayana series

Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna in the arms of their mothers, while their father Dasharatha converses with priests (painting, recto; painting, verso), illustration from a Ramayana series

Indian

A memento mori portrait of an infant lying on a white cushion decorated with hand-colored garden flowers.

Untitled (postmortem portrait of infant with flowers), active 1850s-1860s

J.H. Whitehurst Galleries

View of Mount Vesuvius

View of Mount Vesuvius, 1834 - 1917

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

A black and white photograph showing three people dancing.

Dancers at Cumberland Homesteads, Crossville, Tennessee, 1898 - 1969

Ben Shahn

Drawn in red chalk, two men and a woman worship before an altar displaying a sculpture of the crucified Christ.

Nobles Worshipping Before a Crucifix, c. 1541 - 1609

Federico Zuccaro

A black and white chalk drawing of a nude statue is drawn from behind, leaning against a pilaster inside a niche.

Study of an Antique Statue Seen from the Rear in a Niche, c. 1485 - 1547

Attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo

A black and white photograph of a group of children and one adult.

Untitled (New Orleans, Louisiana), 1898 - 1969

Ben Shahn

Vertical street market scene with figures loosely painted in shade with a brightly lit building in the background.

Damascus, 1857 - 1936

Emily Sargent

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