Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Prayer Carpet
View through Harvard Museums
Prayer carpet with blue field, dated 1209 A.H (1794 CE).
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Elizabeth Gowing Harborne W. Stuart Peggy Coolidge and the Estate of W.I. Stuart in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart Jr.
Related Results
'A 'mani' or Tibetan 'Prayer-Revolver', at Buddhnath. Nov.
1854'
'A 'mani' or Tibetan 'Prayer-Revolver', at Buddhnath. Nov.
1854'
Watercolour of a 'mani' or Tibetan prayer-wheel,
at Bodnath Temple in Nepal, by Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871),
dated November 1854. The Bodnath stupa is one of the largest in ...
Carpet weaving
Carpet weaving
Photograph of a row of children seated at a loom
weaving carpets in the modern-day state of Jammu and Kashmir, taken
by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. Carpet-making was said...
A King Attending a Purification Ceremony
A King Attending a Purification Ceremony
The painting depicts a type of purification ceremony for a male youth, possibly a prince. He sits in a white, square basin while a male figure adds water to the inside of the struc...
Portrait of a Seated Shaivite Holy Man with Prayer Beads
Portrait of a Seated Shaivite Holy Man with Prayer Beads
Facing right is a holy man seated cross-legged. He wear a large red turban and a white robe (jama). He has a dark, full beard. In his right hand he holds up prayer beads. The yello...
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Copied in naskh script by Ismail Bosnavi, these two folios (2002.50.119 and 2002.50.135) contain a hilye (Arabic hilya), or calligraphically rendered description in Arabic of the P...
This is the earliest known photograph of a photographer at work.
This is the earliest known photograph of a photographer at work.
This is the earliest known photograph of a photographer at work....
Recent Results
Un/re/production of Old Age inThe Taking of Deborah Logan
Un/re/production of Old Age inThe Taking of Deborah Logan
The article offers a re-examination of abjected femininity and old age through a close reading of The Taking of Deborah Logan (2015), a found footage horror movie centered on spect...
Hui ying hui sheng
Hui ying hui sheng
Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan (China), Wood-engraving, Chinese, 1993, Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan...