Detail from The Day of Judgement, picturing five ‘incorporeal beings’ with nimbuses; Falnameh (Book of Divination), 1610-30 CE, India?
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Miniature. “Four Women in a Palace Garden”, Mughal India, Bundi; mid-18th century
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Men with fireworks, ca. 1730-40, Rajasthan, Mughal India. Artist Unknown
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Rajasthani women lighting fireworks during Diwali, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Rajasthan, India, 18th century.
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Aleppo (Syria), miniature painting by Nasuh Al-Matrakî, 16th century
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An Arabic manuscript, dated 1200 CE, titled Anatomy of the Eye by al-Mutadibih
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From 'The Insect Quire (Summer Version)' by Masuyama Sessai (1754 - 1819). Edo period Japan
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The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE) by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi,completed between 1410-11 CE
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Door of the Mosque of Barquq, Cairo. Photograph by David Lewis
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Dish of bidri metal, inlaid with silver and brass, Mughal India, Deccan; 2nd half of 17th century
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Antique Persian Tabriz Carpet, probably late 19th century
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Sandro Botticelli , The Mappa dell'Inferno (Map of Dante's Hell), ca. 1480 - 1495
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Boji Yojo Kagami, 'The Rules of Sexual Life' (房事養生鑑) by an unidentified student of Utagawa Kunisada, Japan, mid 19th century
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Leonardo da Vinci, A Unicorn Dipping its Horn into a Pool of Water. c. 1481. pen & ink and metal point on paper. 9.4 x 8.1 cm
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Serpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god. Imperial, c. 2nd-3rd century CE.
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A royal ram standing in a landscape tethered with a gold chain, c. 1585, Northern India, Mughal court, 16th century, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, miniature, 14.5 x 17 cm
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