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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting long attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, showing Icarus drowning while a ploughman, a shepherd, and an angler work unheeding.
Layered Cliffs and Dense Trees
Layered Cliffs and Dense Trees (层岩丛树图), also translated Storied Mountains and Dense Forests, is a tenth-century ink-on-silk hanging scroll attributed to the monk-painter Juran, held in Taipei.
Li Bai Strolling and Chanting Poetry
Li Bai Strolling and Chanting Poetry is a 13th-century ink hanging scroll by Liang Kai showing the Tang poet Li Bai, held in the Tokyo National Museum.
Lienzo de Tlaxcala
The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is a lost sixteenth-century Mexican pictorial manuscript, a painted cloth commissioned in 1552 documenting the Tlaxcalteca role in the Spanish conquest.
Lisa del Giocondo
Lisa del Giocondo, born Lisa Gherardini (1479–1542), was a Florentine woman identified as the sitter of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, wife of silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, confirmed by Vasari and the 1503 Vespucci note.
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci: the roughly 15–20 attributed paintings (Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Salvator Mundi), lost works like the Battle of Anghiari, and nearly 4,000 notebook sheets and codices.
Listening to the Qin
Listening to the Qin (听琴图, Tingqin tu) is the title of several Chinese paintings showing figures playing the qin, the seven-stringed zither of the literati.
Lofty Mount Lu
Lofty Mount Lu (Lushan gao tu) is a large 1467 hanging scroll by the Ming painter Shen Zhou, a birthday tribute to his teacher Chen Kuan held in Taipei.
Long Landscape Scroll
The Long Landscape Scroll (四季山水図巻, Sansui chōkan) is a Japanese ink handscroll of the four seasons painted by Sesshū Tōyō in 1486 and designated a National Treasure.
Lou Rui Tomb Murals
The Lou Rui Tomb murals (娄睿墓壁画) are the wall paintings of a Northern Qi princely tomb in Taiyuan, Shanxi, dated 570 CE and excavated in 1979.
Madonna del Parto
Madonna del Parto (Madonna of Childbirth), Piero della Francesca fresco of the pregnant Virgin with two angels, c. 1450–1465, 200x200 cm, painted for Santa Maria a Momentana at Monterchi, Tuscany, now in the town's civic museum after a long relocation dispute.
Man and Horse
Man and Horse (人骑图) is a 1296 handscroll of a red-robed rider on horseback by the Yuan dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Mandala of the Two Worlds
The Mandala of the Two Worlds (Ryōkai mandara), also called Ryōbu mandara, is a pair of hanging paintings—the Womb World and Diamond World Mandalas—central to Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
Mawangdui silk banner
The Mawangdui silk banner (T形帛画, T-shaped silk painting) is a painted silk funerary banner from the Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, discovered in 1972.
Mawangdui silk paintings
Mawangdui silk paintings (马王堆帛画) are Han dynasty paintings on silk excavated between 1972 and 1974 from tombs at Changsha, Hunan, China, including two T-shaped coffin banners.
Menologion of Basil II
The Menologion of Basil II is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript made in Constantinople around 1000 for Emperor Basil II, with 430 gold-ground miniatures of saints and feasts.
Mileševa Monastery frescoes
The Mileševa Monastery frescoes are 13th-century wall paintings of a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Prijepolje, painted for King Stefan Vladislav and famous for the White Angel.
Miscellaneous Flowers
Miscellaneous Flowers (Zahua tu juan, 杂花图卷) is a Ming dynasty ink handscroll of flowers, trees, and vegetables by Xu Wei, the representative work of his large-idea flower painting.
Mogao Cave 112 Musicians Mural
The Mogao Cave 112 musicians mural is a mid-Tang dynasty (766–840) wall painting in the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang, China, best known for its back-playing pipa dancer.
Mogao Cave 158 Parinirvana Murals
The Mogao Cave 158 parinirvana murals are Middle Tang murals, painted around 781 to 848 under Tibetan rule, surrounding the 15.6-meter reclining Buddha at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang.
Mogao Cave 172 Amitabha Paradise Murals
The Mogao Cave 172 Amitabha Paradise murals are two High Tang wall paintings, painted 713 to 766, illustrating the Contemplation Sutra and Amitayus Buddha's Western Pure Land at Dunhuang.
Mogao Cave 285 Murals
The Mogao Cave 285 murals are wall and ceiling paintings at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, China, dated by inscriptions to 538 and 539 CE and notable for blending Buddhist, Chinese mythological, and Hindu deities.
Mogao Cave 61 Murals
The Mogao Cave 61 murals are mid-10th-century wall paintings at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, sponsored by governor Cao Yuanzhong and famous for its Mount Wutai map.
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1503–1519 oil portrait of Lisa Gherardini on poplar, 77 × 53 cm, in the Louvre's Salle des États; famous for sfumato and the 1911 Peruggia theft.
Mosaics of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv
The Mosaics of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv are 11th-century glass mosaics covering about 260 square meters of the dome and apse, centered on the Virgin Orans.
Mosaics of the Arian Baptistery
The Mosaics of the Arian Baptistery are early 6th-century dome mosaics in Ravenna, built under King Theodoric for the city's Arian Christian community, showing the baptism of Christ surrounded by the twelve apostles.
Mosaics of the Baptistery of Neon
The mosaics of the Baptistery of Neon are the fifth-century mosaic decoration of Ravenna's Orthodox Baptistery, centered on a dome medallion of the Baptism of Christ.
Muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina
The muqarnas ceiling of the Cappella Palatina is a painted wooden honeycomb ceiling over the nave of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, built under Roger II in the 1140s.
Mural Paintings of Muryangsujeon, Buseoksa
The Mural Paintings of Muryangsujeon, Buseoksa are six late Goryeo Buddhist murals from Josadang shrine at Buseoksa temple in Yeongju, South Korea, designated National Treasure No. 46.
Mural Paintings of the Anak Tomb No. 3
The Mural Paintings of the Anak Tomb No. 3 are Goguryeo tomb murals in North Korea, dated by inscription to 357 and renowned for portraits and a procession of over 250 figures.