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It's Just Between the Heaven and Earth (Tiandi zhi jian)
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Li Zhongxiang
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Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...
Texture of Earth (Texture de sol)
Texture of Earth (Texture de sol)
Lithograph, Soil Earth (Sols Terres) portfolio 9 from the Phenomena (Les Phénomènes) series...
Made in Heaven
Made in Heaven
On the one hand Tal R works with almost naïve and cartoon-like imagery and a palette restricted to just seven colours in these paintings. On the other hand the picture plane is div...
An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by
An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by
Lettering: Madness, thou chaos of ye brain ... Invented & c by Wm. Hogarth. Lettering continues: "What art? That pleasure givst, and pain? Tyranny of fancy's reign! Mechanic fancy;...
The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascent to Heaven (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Layla and Majnun) by Nizami
The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascent to Heaven (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Layla and Majnun) by Nizami
The story of the miraculous night journey of the Prophet Muhammad is based on passages from the Qur'an (17:1, 53:1–18, and 81:19–25), as well as later hadith that describe his trav...