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The Sixth Patriarch Tearing the Sutras
The Sixth Patriarch Tearing the Sutras (六祖撕经图, Rokuso Hakkyō) is a 13th-century Southern Song ink scroll attributed to Liang Kai, showing the Chan patriarch Huineng tearing up a sutra.
The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)
The Tower of Babel (Turmbau zu Babel) refers to two Pieter Bruegel the Elder panels: the signed 1563 Vienna version (KHM, 114.3 × 155.1 cm) and the smaller Rotterdam version (Boijmans, c. 1568), distinguished by scale, rock core, and Nimrod figures.
The Triumph of Death
The Triumph of Death is an oil-on-panel allegory by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562-1563, Prado, Madrid, 117 x 162 cm) showing Death's skeleton army destroying all social classes; distinct from Bosch's apocalypses by its absence of any Last Judgment or salvation.
Theotokos of the Sign
The Theotokos of the Sign, or Znamenie, is an Eastern Orthodox icon type showing the Virgin with hands raised and the Christ child in a medallion on her chest.
Thirteen Emperors Scroll
The Thirteen Emperors Scroll (Lidai diwang tu) is a Chinese handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showing thirteen emperors from the Han to the Sui dynasty.
Thousand-Character Classic in Slender Gold Script
The Thousand-Character Classic in Slender Gold Script is a handscroll written by Emperor Huizong of Song in 1104, the standard reference for his Slender Gold calligraphy.
Transfiguration (Raphael)
The Transfiguration (1516-1520) is Raphael's last painting, an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, combining Christ's transfiguration with the healing of a possessed boy; it now hangs in the Pinacoteca Vaticana.
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (谿山行旅图) is a monumental hanging scroll in ink and light color on silk by the Song painter Fan Kuan, dated around 1000.
Trinity (Andrei Rublev)
Trinity (Andrei Rublev), or Hospitality of Abraham, is a 15th-century Russian icon. It depicts three angelic visitors to Abraham and is considered the acme of Russian art.
Ustyug Annunciation
The Ustyug Annunciation (Устюжское Благовещение) is a large Russian icon of the Annunciation painted in Novgorod in the first third of the 12th century, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Vase of the Seven Gods
The Vase of the Seven Gods (K2796) is a Late Classic Maya cylinder vase depicting six underworld lords before God L on the day of creation.
Venus of Urbino
Venus of Urbino (Venere di Urbino), Titian's 1538 oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm, in the Uffizi: a reclining nude based on Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, bought by Guidobaldo II della Rovere as "la donna nuda," read as a marriage painting, and later reworked by Manet's Olympia.
Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)
Vertumnus (1590/91) is Giuseppe Arcimboldo's oil-on-panel portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as the Roman god of the seasons, composed of fruits, vegetables, and flowers; taken as Swedish war booty in 1648, it hangs at Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
View of Toledo
View of Toledo is an oil-on-canvas landscape of the Spanish city painted by El Greco around 1599 to 1600, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
A sixth- or seventh-century Byzantine encaustic icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Theodore and George, preserved at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
Virgin of Chiquinquirá
The Virgin of Chiquinquirá (Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá) is a 16th-century painting of the Virgin of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá, Colombia, its patroness.
Virgin of the Rocks
Virgin of the Rocks, also Madonna of the Rocks: two Leonardo da Vinci paintings of Mary, Christ, John the Baptist and an angel in a grotto; Louvre version c. 1483–86, London NG1093 version 1491/2–1508 from a disputed Milan altarpiece commission.
Volotovo Church frescoes
The Volotovo Church frescoes are the 14th-century murals of the Church of the Assumption on Volotovo Field near Veliky Novgorod, painted in 1352 and regarded as an outstanding monument of Novgorod painting.
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring is a Southern Song silk painting by Ma Yuan of a scholar strolling with a zither-carrying servant boy, held in Taipei.
Water Album
The Water Album (Shui tu 水圖), also called the Twelve Views of Water, is a set of twelve paintings of water alone by the Southern Song painter Ma Yuan.
Water Village
Water Village (水村图) is a 1302 ink-on-paper landscape handscroll by the Yuan dynasty artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu, a founding statement of the Yuan literati landscape style.
White Lady of Brandberg
The White Lady of Brandberg is a famous rock painting in Namibia's Brandberg massif, now identified as a male San hunter or shaman painted in white pigment.
White-Robed Guanyin
White-Robed Guanyin (Chinese: Baiyi Guanyin, 白衣观音) is a form of the bodhisattva Guanyin depicted in white robes, typically seated on a rock beside water with a willow vase.
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys (萬壑松風圖) is a monumental 1124 landscape hanging scroll by the Song painter Li Tang, held in Taipei.
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks (寒林重汀圖, Kanrin jūtei zu) is a hanging scroll of ink and light color on silk attributed to the Five Dynasties painter Dong Yuan.
Wise and Benevolent Women
Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智图) is a Chinese handscroll in the Palace Museum, Beijing, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi and illustrating Liu Xiang's Biographies of Exemplary Women.
Withered Tree and Strange Rock
Withered Tree and Strange Rock (枯木怪石图), also known as Wood and Rock, is an ink handscroll attributed to Su Shi depicting a gnarled tree and rock.
Woods and Valleys of Yushan
Woods and Valleys of Yushan (虞山林壑图) is a hanging scroll by the Yuan dynasty painter Ni Zan, painted in 1371 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wutai Mountains panorama, Dunhuang Cave 61
The Wutai Mountains panorama (五台山圖) is a monumental mural on the west wall of Cave 61 at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, painted by 947 and the largest Buddhist historical-narrative painting at Mogao.
Yamagoshi Amida
Yamagoshi Amida (山越阿弥陀図) is a genre of Japanese Buddhist painting showing Amida Buddha rising from behind a mountain to welcome the dying to the Pure Land.