Standing Female Figurine (1200–400 BCE): Art, History and Details
Standing Female Figurine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1200–400 BCE, ceramic with pigment. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
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Standing Female Figurine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1200–400 BCE, ceramic with pigment. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Landscape with a Church by a Torrent at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1670, oil on canvas. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Pinnacle with Angel (pair) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1340, tempera and gold on wood panel. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Pinnacle with Angel at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1340, tempera and gold on wood panel. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Pinnacle with Angel at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1340, tempera and gold on wood. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Portrait of a Woman at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1490–95, oil on wood. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Carpet at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1500s, senna knot: wool and cotton. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fragment with Inscription at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1962, Silk: lampas weave. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gol

The sentinel in the employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to sacrifice his son to the ghost of the Shah’s soul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Second Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on pa

The goldsmith and the carpenter inform the king of a dream in which the golden images plan to desert the city for lack of worshippers, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Third Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, i

Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises her not to be unfaithful to Maymun, her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): First Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's c

The goldsmith judged; the bear cubs trained by the carpenter as though they were his sons, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Third Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's co

The mendicant’s wife deceives him with a soldier, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collectio

The soldier receives a garland of roses from his wife which will remain fresh as long as she is faithful, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explo

The two cooks, who attempt to seduce the warrior’s loyal wife, are trapped by her in a cellar, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work

The two erring cooks, dressed as maidservants, fall at the prince’s feet and beg forgiveness, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): Fourth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the wor

The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator at

The wounded monkey bites the hand of the prince, his chessmate, in the presence of guests, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's co

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

The monkey slain, his blood to be used as medicine for the ailing prince he has bitten, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's conte

The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's con

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collec

Seven men disputing possession of a woman bring her before the Tree of Justice into which she is absorbed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explo

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and coll

The vizier dissuades the king of Bahilistan from executing the dervish who asks for his daughter’s hand in marriage, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on

The dervish brings in as dowry an elephant laden with gold, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution an

The dervish brings the King of Kings before the king of Bahilistan, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attrib

The king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attributi

The Brahman gambler sees the daughter of the king of the jinns in a pit together with an old man and a cauldron of boiling oil, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventh Night) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, a

The daughter of the king of the jinns bows before the King of Kings who has just undergone the ordeal of passing through the boiling oil to emerge as a youth, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Ar

The rejuvenated old man and the daughter of the king of the jinns take leave of the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and colle

The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, a

The young prince is presented to the king, his father, by his teacher, but refuses to speak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's

The king’s handmaiden takes the prince away to the harem, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and c

The prince rejects the amorous advances of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attributi

The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context,