Renaissance period — works
17,245–17,280 of 20,442 works · most celebrated first
Text, Folio 76 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Portrait of a Young Man
The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Text, Folio 41 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The game of wolf-running in Tabriz, from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar)
Shennong (Shinnō)
Babur receives booty and Humayun’s salute after the victory over Sultan Ibrahim in 1526, from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)
The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The Brahman’s predicament is conveyed by the wind to the fish who carries the news to the king of the Ocean, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Kamjuy, the wife of the Raja, averts her face from the fishes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The Hermit Xu You Resting by a Stream
Text, Folio 66 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The prince rejects the amorous advances of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eleventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)
The prince, with the help of Mukhlis who changes into a frog, recovers the ring lost in the sea, and returns it to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The Enlightened Stone Retreat, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
Seated Jina Rishabha Enshrined, from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-Sutra
Bamboo in Moonlight
The young man changes himself to look like Mansur, and thus inveigles himself into the bed of Mansur’s wife, but is put off by her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
Text, Folio 65 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Lakeside Retreat
The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night
Shahr-Arai and her husband adopt her lover as a brother in the family, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
Text, Folio 61 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Portrait of a Man
Beggars and Street Characters
Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains
The prince, having deprived the snake of its natural food, a frog, feeds it with a piece of his own flesh, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Portrait of Machtelt Suijs
Text, Folio 42 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 6 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Text, Folio 11 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 19 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra