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Works

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Manohar|Muhammad Husain Kashmiri|Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade

4th century BCE

Carnelian ring stone

ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Base of an Altar Cross with Reading Angels Sitting on Dragons and Standing Church Fathers

Miniature Relief of Saint John the Evangelist at His Writing Table

北野天神縁起絵巻　断簡「太宰府安楽寺」|Courtiers Visit Sugawara no Michizane’s Mortuary Temple, from Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine

元　佚名　玉谿思珉題贊　對月圖　軸|Reading a sutra by moonlight

Unidentified artist

Italian (Sienese) Painter

Christ among the Doctors

Spanish (Catalan) Painter

"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri|Nizami

835 AH/1431–32 CE

Saints Matthias and Judas Thaddaeus, from "The Apostles"

Israhel van Meckenem

Standing Youth with Hands Behind His Back, and a Seated Youth Reading (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)

Filippino Lippi

Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul

Bartolomeo degli Erri

A Saint (Mark?) Reading

Bartolomeo Vivarini

Martin Schongauer

A Seated Saint Reading from a Book

Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni)

Silver Statuette of St. Bartholomew, from the "Wittenberg Reliquaries"

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Bust of St. Paul, from the Wittenberg Reliquaries

Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Holy Family and Kindred

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Matthew from Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

The Prophet Haggai, from Prophets and Sibyls

Francesco Rosselli|Baccio Baldini

The Prophet Obadiah, from Prophets and Sibyls

Francesco Rosselli|Baccio Baldini

Saint Anthony Reading (copy)

Albrecht Dürer

"Sultan Listening to a Man Reading from a Manuscript", Folio from a Manuscript by Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

early 16th century

Plaque with Saints and Donor

Saint Ambrose in His Study

Saint Jerome Reading

Albrecht Altdorfer

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Schäufelein|Master of Engerda

The Virgin in profile facing right reading to the infant Christ

Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Assembly of male and female scholars gathered around an open book, in the middle ground a man holds aloft an armillary sphere, another group of scholars in the background

Marco Dente|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)

Saint Jerome in His Study

Albrecht Dürer

A Sybil reading facing right

Ugo da Carpi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Saint Jerome in His Study

Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin reading with the infant Christ; woman seated in profile facing left and reading with an arm around a child who looks out toward the viewer

Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century

ca. 1515–1600

Saint Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer

Saint Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer

A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painter

Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study

The Virgin of Sorrows: Christ Disputing with the Doctors; one of nine surrounding compartments from the Virgin of Sorrows, now separated

Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right

Ugo da Carpi|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Sultan Muhammad Nur|Mahmud Muzahib|Shaikh Zada|Nizami

dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)

Plate with seated woman reading to a child

Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

An Old Man (Saint Paul)

Nicolas Beatrizet

The Education of the Virgin

Jean II Pénicaud

mid-16th century, with later additions

Rhetorica, from "The Liberal Arts"

Domenico Beccafumi

Frontispiece to "Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitolato Giardino di Pensieri"

Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)|Marco Dente

Saint Peter holding a large open book, keys by his side, from "Christ and the Apostles"

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

St. Simon standing before an open book with the fingers of his left hand pressed onto the pages, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles"

Lambert Suavius

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

French (Fontainebleau) Painter

Angiolo Falconetto

Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Philips Galle|Hieronymus Cock

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Giorgio Ghisi|Francesco Primaticcio

Saint Matthew seated and reading from a book held by a putto, set within a fanciful architectural backdrop, from a series of woodcuts of the Four Evangelists, copy after Rue Montorgueil woodcut

Rue de Montorgueil|Anthony van Leest