Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu

Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Paintings: Nepal, Kathmandu

Folio 1 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Paper: Nepal, Kathmandu

Standing Buddha

Unknown Artist

Feather

Shibata Zeshin

Naaktslak

anonymous

Text, Folio 60 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri

Landscape

China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Sheet with overall splotchy pattern

Anonymous

Paste paper with brown pattern

Anonymous