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Gaki zōshi
Gaki zōshi (餓鬼草紙, "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts") is a set of 12th-century Japanese narrative handscrolls depicting gaki, the hungry ghosts of Buddhist cosmology; two scrolls are National Treasures held in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Ge Zhichuan Relocating
Ge Zhichuan Relocating (Ge Zhichuan Yiju Tu, 葛稚川移居图) is a hanging scroll by Yuan dynasty painter Wang Meng depicting the Daoist master Ge Hong moving his household to Mount Luofu.
Genji Monogatari Emaki
Genji Monogatari Emaki (源氏物語絵巻) is a set of 12th-century Japanese handscrolls illustrating Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, the oldest surviving tale handscroll and a National Treasure.
Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a 1432 polyptych by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, famed for its thefts, Nazi looting, and the 2012-2026 restoration revealing 16th-century overpaint.
Ginevra de' Benci
Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1474/1478 oil-on-panel portrait of the Florentine noblewoman, with juniper symbolism and Virtutem Forma Decorat reverse, held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, since 1967.
Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne) is a book of hours illuminated by Jean Bourdichon for Queen Anne of Brittany between 1503 and 1508.
Great Gallery
The Great Gallery is the best known pictograph panel in Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, and the type site of the Barrier Canyon Style of prehistoric rock art.
Guanyin, Gibbons, and Crane
Guanyin, Gibbons, and Crane (観音猿鶴図, Kannon saru tsuru zu) is a set of three hanging scrolls painted by Muqi in the 13th century, held at Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto.
Haboku sansui
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, Broken-Ink Landscape) is a 1495 hanging scroll by the Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, the most celebrated Japanese example of the haboku broken-ink technique.
Heiji Monogatari Emaki
The Heiji Monogatari Emaki (平治物語絵巻, Illustrated Scrolls of the Tale of Heiji) are Kamakura-period Japanese handscrolls depicting the Heiji Rebellion of 1159, famed for dynamic battle scenes.
Hercules and Antaeus (Pollaiuolo)
Hercules and Antaeus is a pair of works by Antonio del Pollaiuolo from about 1475: a small panel in the Uffizi and a bronze statuette in the Bargello, both in Florence.
Hōnen Shōnin Eden
Hōnen Shōnin Eden (法然上人絵伝) is a set of 48 painted handscrolls depicting the life of Hōnen, founder of Japan's Jōdo-shū, held as a National Treasure at Chion-in, Kyoto.
Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux
The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux is a small illuminated Book of Hours made in Paris by Jean Pucelle around 1324 to 1328 for Jeanne d'Évreux, queen of France.
Huike Showing His Severed Arm
Huike Showing His Severed Arm (慧可断臂図) is a 1496 ink hanging scroll by the Japanese Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, showing Huike offering his severed arm to Bodhidharma.
Human Figure Riding a Dragon
Human Figure Riding a Dragon (人物御龙帛画, Silk Painting of a Man Riding on a Dragon) is a Warring States silk painting from a Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, China's oldest surviving portrait painting on silk.
Human Figure with Dragon and Phoenix
A Warring States silk painting unearthed in 1949 from a Chu tomb at Changsha, showing a noblewoman with a dragon and phoenix guiding her soul upward.
Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect
The Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect (e-ingakyō) is a Japanese illustrated handscroll of the Buddha's life; its Nara-period examples are the oldest surviving emaki in Japan.
Ink Grapes
Ink Grapes (墨葡萄图), also cataloged as Shuimo Putou, is a splashed-ink hanging scroll of grapes by the Ming artist Xu Wei, in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Ippen hijiri-e
Ippen hijiri-e (一遍聖絵, Illustrated Biography of the Hijiri Ippen) is a 1299 Japanese emaki handscroll depicting the life of Ippen, founder of the Ji school of Buddhism.
Irworobongdo
Irworobongdo, also called Ilwolobongbyeong or Obongbyeong, is a Korean folding screen of the sun, moon, and five peaks set behind the royal throne in Joseon palace halls.
Isenheim Altarpiece
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516), painted by Matthias Grünewald with a carved shrine by Niclaus of Haguenau, is a monumental winged polyptych made for an Antonite hospital treating ergotism, now in Colmar's Musée Unterlinden.
Isleworth Mona Lisa
Isleworth Mona Lisa, also called the Earlier Mona Lisa: an oil-on-canvas portrait of a younger Lisa Gherardini with side columns, claimed by the Mona Lisa Foundation to be Leonardo's earlier version and disputed as a copy by scholars such as Martin Kemp.
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Giuditta e Oloferne), Caravaggio's oil on canvas of about 1599-1602 in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, shows Judith cutting the throat of the Assyrian general Holofernes; first owned by banker Ottavio Costa and widely copied by Caravaggisti.
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e (春日権現験記, also read Kasuga Gongen Reigenki) is a set of twenty illustrated handscrolls of 1309 depicting miracles of the Kasuga deities of Nara.
Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki
Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki (吉備大臣入唐絵巻, "Minister Kibi's Journey to Tang China") is a late twelfth-century Japanese narrative handscroll held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki (北野天神縁起絵巻) is a set of Japanese narrative handscrolls recounting the life, exile, and vengeful spirit of the poet Sugawara no Michizane.
Kokawadera Engi Emaki
Kokawadera Engi Emaki (粉河寺縁起絵巻), also read Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, is a late 12th-century Japanese illustrated handscroll depicting the origin legend of Kokawadera, a Kannon pilgrimage temple in Wakayama Prefecture.
Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie
Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie (快雪時晴帖) is a Tang dynasty tracing copy of a short greeting letter attributed to the Eastern Jin calligrapher Wang Xizhi, held in Taipei.
Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine (Dama con l'ermellino), Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1489-1490 oil on walnut portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of Ludovico Sforza; only Leonardo in Polish collections, held in Krakow's Czartoryski Museum.
Lamentation (Nerezi)
The Lamentation, or Threnos, is a fresco of 1164 in the Church of Saint Panteleimon at Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, showing the Virgin mourning over the dead Christ.