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Saint Ambrose

Saint Ambrose

Francisco Goya, c. 1796-99

Handscroll painting of a robed scholar on an ox beside trees and bamboo, with red seals and calligraphy at right.

The eighteen scholars of the Tang dynasty

Emperor Huizong )

Ink handscroll of robed luohan figures crossing rough waves, one riding a beast and another wielding a long staff.

Luohans crossing land and sea

Two robed figures stand in a boat among struggling nude figures in dark water, with a fiery city under a smoky sky.

Dante ja Vergilius manalassa, kopio Eugene Delacroixin mukaan

Adolf von Becker, 1867

Painting of an imperial hunt with horsemen, archers and a red pavilion among green mountains and pine trees.

The Shanglin Park: imperial hunt

Handscroll painting of a sprawling imperial palace complex with red halls and blue-tiled roofs among green mountains and pine

Imperial palaces

Horizontal scroll painting of misty mountains with a golden sun or moon above and tiny figures on a cliff at left.

Sun and moon over land and sea

Emperor Ming of the Jin dynasty

Ink drawing of two robed men on brown silk, one wearing a tall hat, with a toad and bamboo sprigs beside them.

Two male figures with a toad

Painting of a blossoming fruit tree with pink and white flowers against a blue sky and meadow.

Fruit Tree in Blossom

Arvid Järnefelt

Ink painting of dragons with bearded faces and claws swirling through dark, billowing clouds.

Dragons in clouds

Two songbirds perch on a branch of ripe orange persimmons and green leaves against a golden silk background.

Birds and fruit

Handscroll landscape showing a villa with pavilions among trees, backed by layered mountains and rocky crags on golden silk.

The Wangchuan Villa

Traditionally attributed to Guo Zhongshu

Painting of lavender flowers, white blossoms and green leaves on gold silk, with bees flying above them.

Bees hovering over flowers

Misty Chinese landscape painting with a pagoda on a cliff, pine trees, figures on a riverbank and a boat on the water.

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang, 1700

Ink landscape of five bare trees on a rocky promontory with distant hills, calligraphy and red seals above.

Five trees on a rocky promontory

Traditionally attributed to Ni Zan

Chinese handscroll painting of craggy mountains, pine trees, plum blossoms and robed figures beside a stream.

Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains

Painting of a woman with a halo gazing upward, holding a silver jar and wearing a red cloak against a dark background.

Mary Magdalene

Salomon Andersson, 1805

Hanging scroll of a dancer in red skirt performing before seated musicians in a garden with pines and rocks.

Dancer and musicians in a garden

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother

Ellen Thesleff, 1896

Hanging scroll of two pheasants on a rock beneath blossoming plum branches, peonies and a magpie on gold-brown silk.

Pheasants and snow-covered plum blossoms

Ge Shouchang, 1790

Handscroll landscape with green mountains, willow trees, pavilions and a small boat on a river under an ochre sky.

Landscape in blue and green

Ink landscape handscroll showing misty mountains, willow trees, houses by a waterside, a footbridge and small walking figures

Houses at the waterside

Oil portrait of a man with tousled brown hair and mustache in a dark high-necked top against a gray background.

Portrait of Maxim Gorky

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1906

Chinese handscroll showing fishermen in boats on a river, reeds in the foreground, and a herder riding a buffalo along rocky

Life on the river

Handscroll painting on silk of sparrows in flight and perched songbirds among bare branches and red berries.

Rabbits, birds, and flowers

Painting of a blue-headed songbird perched on a branch with yellow fruit and green leaves on a tan silk background.

Bird and fruit

Hanging scroll of a mountain landscape with a pine tree, a pavilion with seated figures, boats on a river, and travellers wit

The hall of scenic beauty 有美堂圖

Painting of blue birds flying among a peach branch with ripe red peaks and pink blossoms on a gold silk ground.

Birds among peach branches

Li Di, 1800

Painting of a sunlit dirt road beside a stream, large trees and a half-timbered house with a red roof.

Tie ja rakennus maisemassa

Werner Holmberg, 1855

Painting of a songbird on a branch with ripe peaches, purple blossoms and green leaves on a golden silk background.

Bird, fruit, and flowers

Ink painting of scholars in robes gathered under a pine tree and rocks, one reading a handscroll.

Literary gathering

Misty lakeside landscape with pale willow trees reflected in still water and a distant wooded shore, painted in soft greens a

Lakeside Landscape

Ellen Thesleff, 1937