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Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Birth of the Virgin, a pen and brown ink drawing

Domenico Ghirlandaio (about 1448/9-1494) was a talented and …
Guercino, Caricature of Four Children, Standing, pen and ink wash

Four children stand in descending order of size. All except …
Jacob de Gheyn the Younger, Allegory on the Equality of all Mankind in Death, a drawing

This drawing is executed in pen and brown ink with a brown a…
Michelangelo, A battle-scene; two figures, a pen and brown ink drawing

This sheet of paper bears sketches by Michelangelo (1475-156…
Michelangelo, Design for Laurentian library door and Designs for the Laurentian library door from the vestibule (recetto

The Laurentian library was built in Florence to house the co…
Michelangelo, Elevation of the lower storey of the Julius tomb and Pieces of the lower storey of the Julius tomb, pen an

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned to create a monume…
Michelangelo, One kneeling and three seated nude men; A male torso, leadpoint and pen and brown ink drawings

In 1508 Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned by Pope Ju…
Paul Bril, Trees at the Edge of a Pool, a pen and ink drawing

This drawing, characteristic of Bril's hand, is drawn in pen…
Samuel Palmer, Drawing for The Bright Cloud, Indian ink with scratching out

Samuel Palmer (1805-81) was one of Britain's greatest artist…
Samuel Palmer, Eclogue III: 'Tis Gentle Phillis', black chalk and brown ink, heightened with white gouac

Samuel Palmer (1805-81) was one of Britain's greatest artist…
Samuel Palmer, Sketchbook: Donkey-like Animal and Tree Studies, brown ink, graphite and watercolour

Samuel Palmer (1805-81) was one of Britain's greatest artist…
Papyrus with a calendar of lucky and unlucky days

It was important to many people whether a day is lucky or no…
Avalokiteshvara, a hanging scroll painting

Many Buddhist works of art were produced during the Koryo pe…
Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, A basket of flowers, a colour woodblock print

The inscription on this print identifies the Ding family as …
Ding Liangxian, Arbutus and Grasshopper, a colour woodblock print

This print was originally produced by members of the Ding fa…
Ding Liangxian, Flowers and Incense, a colour woodblock print

This print was originally produced by members of the Ding fa…
Four luohans and attendants, a hanging scroll painting

This scroll may have belonged to a series of scrolls which d…
Gan Rei, Panorama of Higashiyama, a handscroll painting

This informally sketched panorama shows Higashiyama, a sceni…
Hu Zhengyan, Shizhuzhai shuhua pu ('A Manual of Calligraphy and Painting from the Ten Bamboo Studio'), a

This is the first Chinese woodblock books printed in colour.…
Katsukawa Shun'ei (attributed to), Ten scenes of lovemaking, a handscroll painting

Almost all Ukiyo-e artists produced substantial quantities o…
Keisai Eisen, Young woman arranging her hair, a hanging scroll painting

The young woman depicted here is probably the teenage daught…
Kitagawa Tsukimaro, Geisha, a pair of hanging scroll paintings

Although they are slightly different in size, these two pain…
Landscape by Dong Qichang, a hanging scroll painting

This example of a hanging scroll by Dong Qichang (1555-1636)…
Landscape by Zhu Xiuli, a handscroll painting

In this handscroll, Zhu Xiuli (born 1938) reinterprets tradi…
Landscape in the style of Ni Zan by Wang Hui, a fan painting

Although this painting is by the artist Wang Hui (1632-1717)…
Matsumura Keibun, Morning glory, a hanging scroll painting

This simple painting would have been selected to hang in the…
Shimomura Kanzan, Diogenes, a hanging scroll painting

An aged man in a white robe, with white hair and beard, sits…
Shiokawa Bunrin, Moon over Lake Biwa, a hanging scroll painting

Bunrin uses only black ink to depict this night-time view of…
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Courtesan with a pillow, a hanging scroll painting

In this strongly sensual painting by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (18…
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Empress Jingu leading the invasion of Korea, a preparatory drawing and colour woodblock print

The scene features Empress Jingū, a legendary regent of…
Yang Yanping, Autumn Lotus Pond, a horizontal scroll painting

Yang Yanping (born 1934) is one of the most exciting Chinese…
Zhao Zongzao, Highland Barley, a series of 3 woodblock prints

Zhao Zongzao (born 1931) is a member of the China National A…
Antony Gormley, Part, a pen and ink drawing, with a black and grey wash

This drawing belong to a series from the first half of the 1…
Giorgio Vasari, Abundance, a drawing

Abundance or Plenty carries a basket of fruit on her right s…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, London Bridge, a drawing

The great Venetian painter Canaletto came to London in 1746,…
Jacques Bellange, Standing Figure of a Young Woman, a pen and ink colour wash

Bellange (1575-1616) was court painter to Charles III, Duke …
Michelangelo, An old man wearing a hat (Philosopher), a pen and brown ink drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) would have been in his early twenti…
Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, Etching

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) attended the New York School of Ar…
Edward Hopper, Night on El Train, etching

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) attended the New York School of Ar…
George Bellows, A Stag at Sharkey’s, lithograph

George Bellows (1882–1925) attended the New York School of A…
George Bellows, Business Men’s Bath, lithograph

George Bellows (1882–1925) attended the New York School of A…
John Sloan, Turning out the Light, etching

John Sloan (1871 – 1951) painter, printmaker and teacher, fi…
Robert Gwathmey, The Hitchhiker, colour screenprint

Robert Gwathmey (1903–1988) was born in Richmond, Virginia t…
Robert Riggs, Psychopathic Ward, lithograph

Born in Decatur, Illinois, Robert Riggs (1896–1970) studied …
Demotic papyrus

Loan agreements are not a modern invention. This papyrus is …
Papyrus with part of the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant

The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is an extremely important p…
Bodhidharma (Daruma), a hanging scroll painting

Bodhidharma (died around AD 532), known as Daruma in Japanes…
Chen Shun, Zhoujintang ('Hall of Daytime Elegance'), followed by the Zhoujintang ji ('Record of

The sixteenth-century artist Chen Shun was an accomplished p…
Ding Yunpeng, The God of Literature, a hanging scroll painting

Ding Yunpeng (active about 1584-1638) was from Xiuning, Anhu…
Eight album leaves dedicated to Zhou Liangging, paintings in ink and colour on paper

This album was assembled by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672), an o…
Emperor Huizong (attributed to), Gardenia and Lichee with Birds, a handscroll painting

This realistic painting depicts birds amid clusters of liche…
Gao Fenghan, The Ancient Pine of Dongmou, a fan painting

Gao Fenghan (1683 - after 1747) was one of the Yangzhou bagu…
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the monk Jion Daishi

Jion Daishi (AD 632-82) was the Chinese patriarch of the Hos…
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the young Prince Shotoku Taishi

Prince Shōtoku Taishi (AD 574-622, crown prince and reg…
Hishikawa Moronobu, Scenes in a theatre tea-house, a handscroll painting

The Ukiyo-e school of pictures of the 'floating world' devel…
Hosoda Eishi, The Chinese beauty Yang Guifei, a hanging scroll painting

Yang Guifei, the concubine of the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuanz…
Jiang Song (attributed to), Taking a lute to visit a friend, a hanging scroll painting in ink and slight colour on silk

A scholar and his servant who carries his lute ( qin ) are s…
Katsushika Hokusai, Tametomo and the inhabitants of Onigashima Island, a hanging scroll painting

In 1811 the publisher Hirabayashi Shōgorō commissi…
Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman at her morning toilette, a hanging scroll painting

Utamaro (died AD 1806) was a master at catching the moods of…
Leng Mei, Portrait of a Lady, a hanging scroll painting

Leng Mei (active about 1677- about 1742) specialized in figu…
Matsuno Chikanobu, Standing courtesan, a hanging scroll painting

In the medieval period in Japan (twelfth-sixteenth centuries…
Miyagawa Choshun, Pastimes of the new year and flower viewing, a pair of handscroll paintings

Although most Ukiyo-e artists concentrated on the theatre an…
Moritoshi, Courtesan in a white kimono, a hanging scroll painting

A high-ranked courtesan strolls elegantly through the street…
Qian Xuan, Young nobleman on horseback, a handscroll painting

Qian Xuan (about 1235-1300) was a scholar-official from Wuxi…
Admonitions Scroll

It illustrates a political parody written by Zhang Hua (abou…
The Nymph of the Luo River, a handscroll painting

This is a depiction of the famous prose-poem ( fu ), the Luo…
The thirteenth arhat, Ingada, a hanging scroll painting

Arhat is Sanskrit for an enlightened being (Chinese: luohan …
Utagawa Hiroshige II, Two views of Mt. Fuji from the Sumida River, a pair of hanging scroll paintings

The Sumida River in Edo was a place of amusement for all soc…

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