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Coptic icons
Coptic icons are sacred painted images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints made for the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, usually on wooden panels.
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk is an early 12th-century Chinese handscroll, attributed to Emperor Huizong, showing twelve court women pounding, sewing, and ironing silk.
Court Ladies Waving Fans
Court Ladies Waving Fans (挥扇仕女图), also known as Waving-Fan Ladies, is a Tang silk handscroll attributed to Zhou Fang, depicting thirteen palace women in five scenes and held in Beijing.
Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses
Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses (Zanhua shinü tu, 簪花仕女图) is a Chinese silk handscroll attributed to Tang dynasty painter Zhou Fang, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Cypress Trees
Cypress Trees (檜図屏風, Hinoki-zu byōbu) is a pair of four-fold folding screens painted by the Japanese artist Kanō Eitoku around 1590, designated a National Treasure of Japan.
Deer of Nine Colors
The Deer of Nine Colors (九色鹿) is the hero of a jataka tale depicted in the best-known narrative mural of Mogao Cave 257 at Dunhuang, painted during the Northern Wei dynasty.
Deesis
The Deesis (Greek for "prayer") is a Byzantine icon composition with Christ at the center, flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist in intercession.
Departure and Return
Departure and Return (Chujing Rubi tu) is a pair of Ming dynasty handscrolls at the National Palace Museum in Taipei depicting a Ming emperor's tomb visit.
Depiction of Jesus
Depiction of Jesus: visual representation of Christ in Christian art, from beardless Roman catacomb Good Shepherd frescoes (2nd-4th century) through the 9th-century bearded Pantocrator type to white European, inculturated, cinematic, and AI-generated images.
Descent from the Cross (Dionisius)
Descent from the Cross (Dionisius) is a 1502–1503 icon by the Moscow painter Dionysius and his workshop, now in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land
Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (몽유도원도) is a 1447 handscroll painting by Joseon court painter An Gyeon, depicting a dream of paradise by Prince Anpyeong, son of King Sejong.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (富春山居图) is a Yuan dynasty ink landscape handscroll by Huang Gongwang, begun in 1347, depicting the Fuchun River in Zhejiang and split by a 1651 fire into two sections.
Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains
Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains (青卞隐居图) is a 1366 ink hanging scroll by the Yuan painter Wang Meng, depicting Bian Mountain and held by the Shanghai Museum.
Early Snow on the River
Early Snow on the River (江行初雪图) is a handscroll of ink and color on silk by the Southern Tang painter Zhao Gan, dated around 960, showing fishermen and travelers in the first snowfall.
Ebstorf Map
The Ebstorf Map was a giant medieval mappa mundi made on about thirty sewn parchment skins at Ebstorf convent, and was destroyed by fire in 1943.
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden (杏园雅集图) is a Ming dynasty handscroll attributed to court painter Xie Huan, recording a 1437 garden party of nine senior Ming officials in Beijing.
Eleusa
Eleusa, Greek for "merciful," is a Byzantine iconographic type of the Virgin and Child in tender embrace, known from the Vladimir Mother of God of about 1130.
Emaciated Horse
Emaciated Horse (駿骨図, Junqu tu) is an ink handscroll by Song loyalist Gong Kai (1222–1307), depicting a bony horse as an allegory of loyalty to the fallen Song dynasty.
Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu
Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu (明皇幸蜀圖) is a Chinese blue-green landscape hanging scroll in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, depicting Emperor Xuanzong's flight to Sichuan in 755.
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy (步辇图, Bu Nian Tu) is a Tang dynasty silk handscroll attributed to Yan Liben, in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Faras Virgin and Child
The Faras Virgin and Child refers to medieval Nubian wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras in northern Sudan, found by Polish excavations in 1961–1964.
Five Oxen
Five Oxen (五牛图, Wuniu tu) is a Tang dynasty handscroll painting by the chancellor Han Huang showing five oxen, held in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Five-colored Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Branch
Five-colored Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Branch (五色鸚鵡圖, also called Apricot Blossom Parakeet) is a Song handscroll attributed to Emperor Huizong, datable to the 1110s, held in Boston.
Four Gentlemen
The Four Gentlemen (사군자; 四君子) are the plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo, four plants whose ink paintings symbolize the virtues of the junzi in East Asian literati art.
Four Plum Blossoms
Four Plum Blossoms (Simei tu, 四梅圖) is a 1165 Southern Song ink handscroll of plum blossoms by Yang Wujiu, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street
The frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street (Спаса Преображения на Ильине улице) are a 1378 mural cycle by Theophanes the Greek in Novgorod.
Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery
The Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery are murals painted in 1502 by the Moscow master Dionisy in northern Russia, preserved almost intact and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji (不動明王) is the principal image of Jingo-ji temple's fire-ritual hall in Kyoto, long considered Edo-period until conservation showed it dates to the late Heian period.
Fusuma Paintings of Chishaku-in
The Fusuma Paintings of Chishaku-in (智積院障壁画) are Momoyama-period gold-ground sliding-door paintings made around 1592 by Hasegawa Tōhaku, whose Maple and Cherry Blossom panels are National Treasures.
Fyodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God
The Fyodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God (Феодоровская икона) is a Russian icon in Kostroma, venerated since the 17th century as the Romanov dynasty's family shrine.