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The Ghost Story | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This picture depicts a prosperous peasant's dwelling, where the women of the house have gathered to spin and prepare food. McEwen showed the narration of a ghost story at its most dramatic moment—all eyes are fixed on the storyteller, the spinning wheels are idle, the listeners lean toward her...
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 38 | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This extraordinary album has 50 paintings on a variety of religious subjects. They were likely created by several master craftsmen to share with studio apprentices as models for fulfilling commissions. The Jade Emperor and the Daoist pantheon make up the first 26 leaves. The next 14 leaves...
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 43 | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This leaf and the one nearby belongs to a group of sketches with the theme “Clearing the Mountains” (<em>soushan tu</em>). The textual basis has long been lost; only the paintings survive. Here, fearsome divine soldiers fight against evil spirits depicted as animals and human-like creatures in...
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Water Jar (Olla) with Rainbird | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Zuni (A:shiwi) women used ollas (<em>oy-</em>ahs) like this one to collect, carry, and store water. The water well was a place for socializing, and the vessels’ public visibility may help to explain their elaborate, deftly painted decoration—here an abstract creature called the Rainbird whose...
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After a brief romantic encounter with a merchant, an unfaithful wife returns home to discover that the merchant's clerk replaced her sugar with gravel. Her husband demanded to know why she brought him a bag of dirt. In response, the wily adulteress concocts a quick lie that he readily accepts.
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Mirror with Paired Felines | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The two leopard-like creatures stalking each other around the knob of this mirror display a naturalistic animal style that emerged with the Sui and Tang unification of China. Their constrained energy contrasts markedly with the reserved image of a young woman described in the encircling poetic...
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Pine Tree | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Segantini painted this view of a pine tree in the Swiss Alps with his distinctive combination of brilliant colors applied in small, broken strokes. Rather than a direct transcription of nature, the extreme close-up view and the flat, decorative space are designed to arouse an emotional response....
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Snail Necklace-Pin (Snail Pin) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Artist John Paul Miller demonstrates a mastery of metalworking techniques in this snail pendant brooch. Miller often used a technique he rediscovered in the early 1950s whereby gold granulation was applied to the surface to decorate the snail’s body and antennae, while multicolored enameling...
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Bamboo in Rain; Bamboo in Wind | Cleveland Museum of Art
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East Asian paintings from China, Korea, and Japan were frequently conceived as sets of multiple images. These sets might have been composed for specific palace or temple rooms, or to portray a specific theme, such as the four seasons. Over time, the original intent of such sets is often lost...
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Textile Fragment | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This fragment, one of several in the collection, is a rare survivor of catastrophic rains that destroyed much of the Moche textile legacy and may have helped to bring about the decline of Moche culture. It depicts a serpent and a snail beneath a hovering raptorial bird—perhaps a snail kite, a...
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A Spring Shower | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, an important Venetian fresco painter of the 18th century, is best known today for his highly finished historical drawings that ingeniously incorporate details from daily life. In his series of 104 drawings known as <em>I Divertimenti per li Regazzi </em>(Enjoyments for...
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Autumn Excursion from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the <em>Tale of Genji,</em> authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (<em>hakubyō</em>) mode, in which a fine ink line is used to...
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Streams and Mountains | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Like many literati of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, Xu Ben was entangled with the perils of dynastic change as well as the ups and downs of his official career. It was mainly through the art of painting and poetry, as well as the ideal of reclusion, that he sought feelings of...
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Cloud Study | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
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The Pink Cloud | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Henri-Edmond Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of applying small dots or dashes of pure color in 1891. Around 1896, as seen in this view of a spectacular cloud, he shifted toward larger, more emphatic brushstrokes, often surrounded by areas of white to achieve greater color...
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Turban Band (Llauto) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Made by weavers of the Paracas people of Peru’s south coast between 300 BC and AD 100, the tunic (1946.227), headband (1946.228), and mantle (a shawl-like wrap, 1946.226)—are similar to those recovered from the Paracas Necrópolis, a renowned cemetery on the Paracas Peninsula. The cemetery...
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Boy with Anchor | Cleveland Museum of Art
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In this work from a series of watercolors produced in Gloucester, MA, in the summer of 1873 Winslow Homer evokes the fraught nature of the local fishing industry by focusing not on the perilous work of adults, but rather the children they leave behind. In <em>Boy with Anchor</em>, the massive...
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The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea | Cleveland Museum of Art
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To make this monumental woodcut—considered one of the most ambitious prints of the Renaissance—Titian probably drew directly on the wooden blocks, after which a skilled cutter completed the blocks. The size rivals that of a painting, and the composition would have hung on a wall. Titian’s bold...
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Box with Painted Oxhorn | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This box is colorfully decorated with the technique of oxhorn plating. The oxhorn was cut, soaked in water, boiled, and then pressed into thin translucent sheets. Since oxhorns are usually rather small, dozens of them were required to fully decorate even a small wooden object. This box is...
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Branch of Plum from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the <em>Tale of Genji,</em> authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (<em>hakubyō</em>) mode, in which a fine ink line is used to...
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Search the Collection | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Collection of artworks that are in the museum
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Vase with Inlaid Lotus, Plum, and Bamboo Design | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Flattened-shaped jars like this one started to appear around the late 13th century. Each of the flattened sides is decorated with an image of a lotus flower pond, enclosed in a lobed panel. The protruding sides, on the other hand, depict an image of bamboo trees and plum blossoms. This...
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Sake Bottle with Three Figures (lid) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The bottle features three elegantly drawn figures: a beautiful woman, a young man, and a priest. The artist used a fine-haired brush to draw these figures in colored enamel onto the porcelain bottle, which had already been given a clear glaze. A final firing fused the enamel to the form. The...
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 49 | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This extraordinary album has 50 paintings on a variety of religious subjects. They were likely created by several master craftsmen to share with studio apprentices as models for fulfilling commissions. The Jade Emperor and the Daoist pantheon make up the first 26 leaves. The next 14 leaves...
on Jun 24
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 50 | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This extraordinary album has 50 paintings on a variety of religious subjects. They were likely created by several master craftsmen to share with studio apprentices as models for fulfilling commissions. The Jade Emperor and the Daoist pantheon make up the first 26 leaves. The next 14 leaves...
on Jun 24
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Tasciovanus Stater: Wreath (obverse); Horse and Armed Rider (reverse) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The clarity of the obverse legend sets this piece beyond all doubt. The meaning of RICON, which on some other specimens occurs as RICONI or RIGON, is uncertain. Some authorities believe it to be the Celtic form of REX or king. A high quality or workmanship, the horse has a clear,...
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Potpourri Vase with Cover | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This vase was likely made by the celebrated Parisian ceramics firm of Edmé Samson (1810-91). To cater to the resurgence in taste for 18th-century designs, the Samson firm specialized in making reproductions of rare 18th-century European porcelains, especially those from firms that had already...
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Cloud Study | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
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Vajrapani Embroidered Mount with Garuda | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Kneeling and holding his left hand in a gesture of reverential greeting, this Buddhist protector holds a stylized thunderbolt called a <em>vajra</em>, for which he is named. His black body is set off by the gold cloud and flames that stand out from the indigo sky through which birds of prey fly...
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Ritual Axe | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ceremonial weaponry was used in tantric rituals to combat obstacles to enlightenment, such as ignorance, delusions, and selfishness. In 1407, a high-ranking Tibetan monastic patriarch visited the emperor of the Ming dynasty, known as Yongle. The Yongle emperor presented him with a number of...
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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Ogata brothers Kōrin and Kenzan often collaborated on ceramics. This dish is one of a set used for serving tea cakes. Kenzan shaped the dish, after which Kōrin drew the iron oxide design of plovers, a type of shorebird, flying over waves. Kenzan then covered the object with a clear glaze and...
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Mountain Market in Clearing Mist, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape...
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This page is from an herbal, an illustrated book on the properties of plants. Herbals were among the first manuscripts of the Islamic world to include painted figural imagery. The lines in red are titles signaling how to make a particular kind of medicine. <br><br>Initially written in Greek by a...
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Orpheus and Eurydice (recto) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Quick drawings could serve a variety of purposes, and it is not always clear today why an artist created a particular sketch. This one may record a painting Fragonard saw during a journey to Italy, or capture an idea he was considering for a painting of his own. Orpheus, identified by the lute,...
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The Haven of the Peach-Blossom Spring | Cleveland Museum of Art
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A miniature inspired by the “Peach Blossom Spring,” this painting illustrates the well-known tale written by the poet-recluse Tao Yuanming (365–427 CE), in which a fisherman accidentally discovers a hidden utopian village where residents live in harmony, untouched by the outside world's...
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Tunic and Band | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Although these garments are similar in appearance and technical features, it is not clear that they were found or used together. To see the record for each, click “see all set records,” above.
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Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This mirror bears an important inscription as well as symbolic imagery of the Eight Trigrams and Heaven and Earth to express the ancient Chinese cosmological ideas. The inscription reads: <br>Circle above and square below: <br>These are symbolic of heaven and earth. <br>In the middle are the...
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Left Scroll from Calligraphy Couplet | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The prominent politician and modern reformer Liang Qichao writes here in an angular, firm, and little modulated regular script style, inspired by inscriptions incised on ancient stone steles. Those script styles were popular among reformers of the time, as they sought to revive the ancient...
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Axes with stone blades and wooden hafts were used to clear land for planting. This more fragile example, made entirely of chipped flint, is a ceremonial version probably used in rituals before it was deposited in a tomb or an offering. Late Classic Maya vase paintings make the ceremonial...
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River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Dong Qichang had a tremendous impact on the artistic practices and historiography of later generations; his works and writings shaped literati aesthetics. Here, Dong places an abstract landscape composition diagonally across the picture plane, configured to recall earlier masters and...
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Search the Collection | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Collection of artworks that are in the museum
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Textile Fragments | Cleveland Museum of Art
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These fragments are rare survivors of catastrophic rains that destroyed much of the Moche textile legacy and may have helped to bring about the decline of Moche culture. Each depicts a serpent and a snail beneath a hovering raptorial bird—perhaps a snail kite, a type of hawk named after its...
on May 29
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Medallion: Coronation of the Virgin | Cleveland Museum of Art
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The word enamel derives from the Old French <em>esmail</em> and the Old High German <em>smelzen</em>, meaning "to smelt." This is the most crucial process in the making of enamel. To prepare enamel, the constituents of glass (flint, or sand, as well as red lead, and soda or potash) are heated...
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The designs on Takihime’s outer robe describes fragments of scenery—bridge, castle, wind-filled sails amid clouds—while her attendants’ robes are more conventionally decorated with scattered flowers. The tassels on their sleeves were worn only by young girls. All three wear the triple-fan crest...
on May 24
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Venus and Cupid in a Chariot | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Giovanni Francesco Barbiere, called Guercino, was a prolific draftsman who used drawing not only to prepare for his many painting commissions but also to record and explore his ideas for future use. This preparatory drawing, made early in his career, reflects Guercino's nonlinear preparatory...
on May 23
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Trefoil Knots from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the <em>Tale of Genji,</em> authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (<em>hakubyō</em>) mode, in which a fine ink line is used to...
on May 23
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The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea | Cleveland Museum of Art
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To make this monumental woodcut—considered one of the most ambitious prints of the Renaissance—Titian probably drew directly on the wooden blocks, after which a skilled cutter completed the blocks. The size rivals that of a painting, and the composition would have hung on a wall. Titian’s bold...
on May 23
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River Village in a Rainstorm | Cleveland Museum of Art
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In this scene, windswept rain pelting a village captures the power of nature in a masterful composition. <br><br>Lü Wenying from Zhejiang served as a court painter during the Hongzhi era (1488–1505). Hardly known, with few remaining works, he is considered a Zhe school painter who followed the...
on May 22
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Rank Badge (buzi) | Cleveland Museum of Art
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Rank badges (also called rank insignia or Mandarin squares) were used in China during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties to demonstrate the wearer’s rank. In 1391 new clothing regulations directed court officials to wear decorative squares indicating their rank—birds for civil...
on May 19
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 37 | Cleveland Museum of Art
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This extraordinary album has 50 paintings on a variety of religious subjects. They were likely created by several master craftsmen to share with studio apprentices as models for fulfilling commissions. The Jade Emperor and the Daoist pantheon make up the first 26 leaves. The next 14 leaves...
on May 19