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Landscape with Mountain Village
Landscape with Mountain Village
Painted on paper in ink and the relatively light shades of color that the literati painters of the Suzhou-based Wu School typically employed, this long handscroll presents a panora...
Bagnacavallo, Pieve di San Pietro in Sylvis, Apostoli
Bagnacavallo, Pieve di San Pietro in Sylvis, Apostoli
The apostles Matthew, Simon, James the Great, Barholomew, James the Less and Saint Paul...
Qur'an or Amulet Box
Qur'an or Amulet Box
Small boxes like this one were used to hold small Qur'ans, prayer manuals, or talismanic texts, which were written on long sheets of paper and folded repeatedly or rolled to fit th...
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
This triptych comprises a set of three hanging scrolls, each painted in ink on paper. The central scroll is a formal portrait of Mao Zedong (1893–1976); the flanking scrolls repres...
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
This triptych comprises a set of three hanging scrolls, each painted in ink on paper. The central scroll is a formal portrait of Mao Zedong (1893–1976); the flanking scrolls repres...
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
This triptych comprises a set of three hanging scrolls, each painted in ink on paper. The central scroll is a formal portrait of Mao Zedong (1893–1976); the flanking scrolls repres...
Nahan (Chinese, Luohan) Standing in a Landscape Viewing an Ink-Painted Scroll Depicting a Seated Bodhisattva While Assisted by an Elderly Male Attendant
Nahan (Chinese, Luohan) Standing in a Landscape Viewing an Ink-Painted Scroll Depicting a Seated Bodhisattva While Assisted by an Elderly Male Attendant
This painting is mounted and framed as a discrete album leaf. Done in ink and colors on paper, the painting, which might originally have been mounted as a hanging scroll, presumabl...
Myth (Expression of the Sea)
Myth (Expression of the Sea)
This vertically oriented, rectangular, multicolor woodblock print comprises four compositional units. Printed in purple, a five-armed octopus- or starfish-shaped emblem dominates t...