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The reference works belong to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection and are not offered for sale here. Records and images use the museum’s CC0 open-access release; there is no museum partnership. Sources and methodology.

c. 1400 · Spain, Valencia

The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity

Master of Rubielos de Mora (Spanish) · oil on panel

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The court of the Raja of Ujjain, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-sixth Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The creatures of the sea are asked by the king of the Ocean to take a message to the Brahman, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

1470s · Italy, Siena

The Crucifixion

Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1435–1495) · tempera and oil with gold on wood panel

1606–7 · Italy, Naples

The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610) · oil on canvas

1460 · Netherlands

The Crucifixion with a Carthusian Monk

Rogier van der Weyden (Flemish, c. 1399–1464) · oil and gold on wood

1823 · France, 19th century

The Curious One

Antoine Pierre Mongin (French, 1761–1827) · oil on paper mounted to canvas

c. 1580 · Italy

The Dead Christ with Angels

Leandro Bassano (Italian, 1557–1623) · oil on canvas

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600) · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The deceitful wife persuades her husband to sleep in the same place where she had previously slept with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600) · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1624–28 · Netherlands

The Denial of Peter

Peter Wtewael (Dutch, 1596–1660) · oil on wood

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The dervish brings in as dowry an elephant laden with gold, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The dervish brings the King of Kings before the king of Bahilistan, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The dethroned frog Shapur seeks the help of the serpent, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenth-sixth Night

Artist not recorded · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

1856 · America

The Devil and Tom Walker

John Quidor (American, 1801–1881) · oil on canvas

1891 · France, 19th century

The Dock of Deauville

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898) · oil on wood panel

1826 · England, 19th century

The Doge's Palace, Venice

Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828) · oil on millboard

c. 1560 · Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first Night

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600) · gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1670 · India, Mughal, 17th century

The dream of Zulaykha, from the Amber Album

Artist not recorded · Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

c. 1772 · England

The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire

Johann Zoffany (German, 1733–1810) · oil on canvas

1454 · China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

The Eight Hosts of Deva, Naga, and Yakshi

Artist not recorded · hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

later 1700s · Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup

Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781) · Six-panel folding screen, ink and cut-gold foil on paper