Renaissance at the Cleveland Museum of Art
1,477–1,512 of 3,420 works · most celebrated first
Playing the Qin in a Secluded Valley
The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The pious man’s son presents the slain dragon to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night
The Marriage of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, page from a Bhagavata Purana
Text, folio 12 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 13 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 18 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
John the Baptist being carried to Zacharias
The Brahman, unable to select from the four gifts of the king of the Ocean seeks the Raja’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
The vagabond crosses a stream with the possessions of the daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras and absconds, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night
Text, Folio 4 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 27 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Han Yige
Clouds and Waves at the Wu Gorge
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-third Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The Lion's Cave with Sthulabhadra and His Sisters, Folio 60 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Saying Farewell at Xunyang (Song of the Pipa)
Tiger-Flight Spring at the Back Gate, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
The Annunciation and The Nativity
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night
A Pair of Peafowl
Panel from a Triptych: St. Anthony Abbot
Portrait of a Woman as Saint Catherine
Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish Poems in Praise of Wine (verso)
As punishment, the jester’s wife and the Zangi are thrown into fire and the emir’s wife and the mahout are trampled by an elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Twenty-second Night
The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
Madonna and Child in a Niche
Shahr-Arai’s husband bends to kiss his wife who feigns sleep, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
Boy Drinking
Text, Folio 39 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 32 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Mahrusa kills herself at the tomb of the king of Zabul, and her husband does likewise, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night
Old Pine Tree
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fiftieth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night
Text, Folio 20 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 23 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra