The 109 Artworks of media Gold Leaf and containing the word nobuo sekine, gold leaf, post minimalism, 2000

Bamboo in the Four Seasons Tosa Mitsunobu

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Tosa Mitsunobu - Bamboo in the Four Seasons

The traditional Chinese subject of bamboo is given a distinctly Japanese treatment in this rendition of the four seasons. Stands of mature bamboo, leafy young bamboo plants, and tapering bamboo shoots are loosely grouped across the surface of this pair of screens, with violets and shepherd’s purse c...

Translated Vase Yee, Sookyung

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Korean Art Museum Association (Seoul, South Korea)

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Women’s Kabuki Kano Takanobu

The focus of this composition is a young woman dressed as a gallant samurai, performing the Kabuki skit Chaya asobi, or “Teahouse Entertainments.” Her comic sidekick, the manservant Saruwaka (Young Monkey)—also played by a woman—holds a branch of maple leaves or flowers.In its earliest phase, Kabuki...

Yelthadaas from the series Coppers from the Hood Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Yelthadaas from the series Coppers from the Hood

Agriculture in four seasons (Left-hand screen)Kanō Naganobu

Yahgulanaas named his ongoing series Coppers from the Hood for the shield-like totems, or coppers, that Haida chiefs traditionally exchanged during potlaches, communal feasts that formed the basis of the pre-colonial economy on the Northwest Pacific Coast and that are still held today. Many of the a...

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Kanō Naganobu - Agriculture in four seasons (Left-hand screen)

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)

The Tree of Jesse Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - The Tree of Jesse

In the Middle Ages, King David was considered to be the author of the psalms, leading to the frequent inclusion of the Tree of Jesse in psalters. In this manuscript, the tree is one of a series of full-page miniatures preceding the text of the psalms. The genealogical diagram of Christ/

Mishneh Torah Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Mishneh Torah

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

The Mishneh Torah is the magnum opus of Moses Maimonides, the renowned medieval philosopher. This remarkable text consolidates Jewish law into a systematic, comprehensive and accessible anthology, still consulted by rabbis and scholars today. This manuscript copy of the Mishneh Torah is one of the m...

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - The Creation of Birds

The Creation of Birds Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Old Plum Kano Sansetsu

Table of Affinity Danish Unknown Goldsmith

The massive black trunk of an ancient plum tree with bending, twisting branches spans nearly sixteen feet across four sliding panels. The reptilian old tree sprouts blossoms, which convey the atmosphere of a cold early spring morning and symbolize birth and renewal. These panels originally formed on...

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Table of Affinity

The Table of Affinity serves as a pendant to the Table of Consanguinity in the section on matrimony in Gratian/

Piñanona 1 Gabriel Orozco

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The Abduction of Helen Danish Unknown Goldsmith

The piñanona (scientific nameMonstera deliciosa) is a common plant used for decoration in homes and hotels throughout Mexico. In this canvas, Gabriel Orozco abstracts a composition from the image of a piñanona leaf’s shadow. While Orozco’s earlier paintings tend to focus on geometry and chance varia...

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - The Abduction of Helen

A Crocodile and a Hydrus Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - A Crocodile and a Hydrus

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Nocturno 1 Requena Nozal

Life's Symphony (Kyoku)Maio Motoko

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Altarpiece: The Life of Christ Keith Haring

Across a brilliant gold-leaf background, the artist fashioned a wide undulating line from traditional Japanese paper (washi) soaked in ink and crushed-shell pigment (gofun) and then pressed into compact folds. The pair of screens is titled Kyoku, which in Japanese can mean “bend,” “curve,” “music,” ...

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Keith Haring - Altarpiece: The Life of Christ

Nakamura Keith Haring Collection (Hokuto, Japan)

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Easy Cutting Imran Qureshi

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Landscape Yuan Jiang

Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan Lu Kezheng

Traditional methods of landscape painting are invoked by Hu in this fan. Mountain forms are built using a system of brush dabs, while forests are created by an assembly of ideogram trees. Dilute ink and pale colors soften the rigor of the traditional conception, producing work with an easy popular a...

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Lu Kezheng - Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan

This evocative vignette is signed by a certain Lu Kezheng, an obscure artist who has gone unrecorded in histories of Chinese painting. Centering the composition on the lower half of the fan, Lu left the top shrouded in mist, creating a feeling of suspense by withholding a view into the far distance....

River Landscape Full Name In English Not Provided

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Full Name In English Not Provided - River Landscape

Yellowstone I Requena Nozal

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Table of Consanguinity Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Table of Consanguinity

In the section of the Decretals on matrimony, an illuminator provided two full-page diagrams across a double-page spread to explain visually the laws of consanguinity and affinity. These laws were important for determining lines of inheritance and the legality of marriages. The first of these diagra...

Landscape with Tower Ike Taiga

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Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

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Bird Ju Chao

Ju Chao's inscription on this decorative fan says the bird is done in the style of the Yangzhou Eccentric Luo Ping (1773–99). Behind Luo Ping 's and Ju Chao's pictures is the idealized realism of the 12th century Song Academy painters. By the 19th century however, nature is no longer a mystery touch...