Palette & pigment
Warm Red in art
1,345–1,392 of 6,059 works · most celebrated first
Portrait of an Official
Shiva Seated on a Throne in a Landscape
Mahavira's Omniscience and First Teaching (Samavasarana), Folio 39 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Café Wepler
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Text, Folio 62 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
King Siddhartha's Morning Bath, Folio 22 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
In the Surf (recto)
The Raja’s son vows to sever his head and offer it to the image if he is united with the princess he has seen in the temple, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night
A Musical Company
The young man of Baghdad solicits advice from a friend as his slave girl, who is adept at music, awaits, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night
Courtesan
Text, Folio 15 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Mahavira Rides in His Initiation Palanquin, Folio 36 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a son as a result of eating out of the box. The clever child recognizes the false gems from true, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
Bashir confides his love for Habbaza to an Arab friend, and sends him to her with a message, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night
Text, Folio 52 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 38 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Courtesan and Attendants
Text, Folio 33 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twentieth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Maharana Sangram Singh II (r. 1710–34) Worshipping a Linga Under a Banyan Tree
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Text, Folio 68 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 17 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Kali and Devi attack, from a Devi Mahatmya
Hulagu Khan giving a feast and dispensing favor upon the amirs and princes, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
Repenting his conduct, ‘Ubaid falls at the feet of his parents, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night
Dragon
Sanehi Ragini, from the “Second Basohli" Ragamala
Text, Folio 42 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of the wheel, from volume 11 of a Hamza-nama (Adventures of Hamza)
The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The guard restores the son who falls at his mother’s feet, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night
Krishna celebrates Holi
Text, Folio 57 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Kalpa-sutra manuscript with 24 illuminations
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-third night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Nemi Enthroned, Folio 54 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Painting Eleven from Illustrated Book of Flowers and Butterflies
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Painted Panel of Character "Tiger"
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Chinese Seals and Poets
Text, Folio 10 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The daughter of the merchant of Mazanderan asks the gardener for the rose, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
Birth of Parshva, Folio 45 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Courtesan Reading a Letter