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Mural Paintings of the Deokheung-ri Tomb
The Mural Paintings of the Deokheung-ri Tomb (德興里壁畵古墳) are the wall paintings of a Goguryeo tomb built in 408 CE at Deokheung-ri near Nampo, in present-day North Korea.
Mural Paintings of the Gangseo Great Tomb
The mural paintings of the Gangseo Great Tomb (강서대묘) are late 6th to early 7th-century Goguryeo tomb murals in Nampo, North Korea, widely regarded as the peak of Goguryeo tomb painting.
Mural Paintings of the Muyongchong (Dancing Figures Tomb)
The Mural Paintings of the Muyongchong (무용총, Tomb of the Dancers) are 5th-century Goguryeo tomb murals in Ji'an, China, best known for a dancing scene of fourteen figures.
Murals from the Tomb of Prince Zhanghuai
More than 50 Tang dynasty wall paintings from the tomb of Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai, excavated near Qianling in 1971–1972 and famous for its Polo Game and Hunting Procession murals.
Murals from the Tomb of Princess Yongtai
The murals from the Tomb of Princess Yongtai (永泰公主墓壁画) are Tang dynasty wall paintings from 706 in the Qianling tomb of Li Xianhui, granddaughter of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian.
Murals of Anak Tomb No. 3
The Murals of Anak Tomb No. 3, also called the Dong Shou tomb, are Goguryeo tomb paintings in Anak, North Korea, dated to about 357 CE.
Murals of the Gyantse Kumbum
The murals of the Gyantse Kumbum are 15th-century wall paintings filling the 73 chapels of the Kumbum stupa at Pelkhor Chode Monastery in Gyantse, Tibet.
Murals of the Hōryū-ji Kondō
The Murals of the Hōryū-ji Kondō (法隆寺金堂壁画) were late 7th- to early 8th-century Buddhist wall paintings at Hōryū-ji temple in Nara, Japan, praised as a treasury of East Asian Buddhist art.
Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki
The Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki (紫式部日記絵巻) is a set of Japanese illustrated handscrolls from the first half of the 13th century that pictorialize Murasaki Shikibu's court diary.
Nenjū Gyōji Emaki
Nenjū Gyōji Emaki (年中行事絵巻) is a lost set of late Heian Japanese handscrolls, commissioned by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa, depicting the annual ceremonies of the imperial court.
Nerezi frescoes
The Nerezi frescoes are the 1164 Byzantine wall paintings of the Church of Saint Panteleimon in Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, North Macedonia, celebrated for the emotionally intense Lamentation over the Dead Christ.
Netherlandish Proverbs
Netherlandish Proverbs, also called Flemish Proverbs or The Topsy Turvy World, is an oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, made in 1559, that literally illustrates more than 100 Dutch proverbs.
Night-Shining White
Night-Shining White (照夜白圖, Zhaoyebai tu) is a Tang dynasty ink handscroll of about 750 attributed to Han Gan, showing Emperor Xuanzong's favorite charger straining against its tether, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nine Peaks after Snow
Nine Peaks after Snow (九峰雪霁图) is a 1349 hanging scroll of snowy peaks near Songjiang by Yuan master Huang Gongwang, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics (北齐校书图) is a Song dynasty handscroll on silk attributed to Yang Zihua, showing the 556 collation of the classics under Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi.
Nymph of the Luo River
Nymph of the Luo River (Luoshen fu tu) is a Chinese handscroll painting attributed to Gu Kaizhi, illustrating Cao Zhi's rhapsody about the Luo River goddess.
Old Tree, Bamboo and Rock
Old Tree, Bamboo and Rock (窠木竹石图) is an ink-on-silk hanging scroll by the Yuan artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Old Trees and Monkeys
Old Trees and Monkeys (Koboku enkō-zu) is a pair of 16th-century ink-on-paper hanging scrolls by the Japanese painter Hasegawa Tōhaku, showing monkeys playing on withered trees.
Old Trees, Level Distance
Old Trees, Level Distance (樹色平遠圖) is a Northern Song handscroll attributed to the painter Guo Xi, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Our Lady of Iviron
Our Lady of Iviron, also called the Portaitissa, is a wonder-working icon of the Virgin Mary kept at the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, where it guards the monastery gate.
Our Lady of Kazan
Our Lady of Kazan (Казанская икона Божией Матери) is a revered Russian Orthodox icon revealed in Kazan in 1579 and associated with the liberation of Moscow in 1612.
Our Lady of the Don
Our Lady of the Don (Донская икона) is a late 14th-century double-sided Russian icon attributed to Theophanes the Greek, kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Our Lady of the Sign
Our Lady of the Sign (Znamenie) is an icon type showing the Virgin with raised hands and Christ as a child in a medallion on her breast.
Our Lady of Vladimir
Our Lady of Vladimir, or Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, is a 12th-century Byzantine icon of the Virgin kept in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Painted Coffin of Lady Dai
The Painted Coffin of Lady Dai (马王堆彩绘棺) is the black-ground lacquered coffin from Mawangdui Tomb 1 at Changsha, Hunan, made for Xin Zhui, who died in 168 BCE.
Painting of the Five Hundred Arhats
Painting of the Five Hundred Arhats (오백나한도) is a Buddhist painting genre depicting the five hundred arhats, the Buddha's enlightened disciples, best known in Korea for scrolls painted in 1235 and 1236.
Pavilions and Sails on the River
Pavilions and Sails on the River (江帆楼阁图) is a blue-green landscape hanging scroll attributed to Tang painter Li Sixun and held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Pine Trees
Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu, 松林図屏風) is a pair of six-fold ink screens showing pines in mist, painted in the 16th century by Hasegawa Tōhaku and designated a National Treasure of Japan.
Poet on a Mountaintop
Poet on a Mountaintop is a Ming dynasty album leaf in ink by Shen Zhou, showing a lone scholar gazing at misty peaks; it hangs in Kansas City.
Portrait of Ikkyū Sōjun
The Portrait of Ikkyū Sōjun (一休宗純像) is a 1447 hanging scroll portrait of the Rinzai Zen priest Ikkyū Sōjun, held at the Nara National Museum as an Important Cultural Property.