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instance of: sculpture (52) | woodcut print (33) | drawing (24) | watercolor painting (21) | painting (18) | print (12) | statue (10) | engraving (10) | etching (6) | triptych (3) | mosaic (3) | study (3) | archaeological find (3) | woodblock print (3) | shield (2) | nishiki-e (2) | fresco (2) | illumination (1)

commissioned by: Ismail I (1) | Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1)

owned by: Alessandro Castellani (1) | October Gallery (1) | Philipp Walter Schulz (1) | Bernard Eckstein (1)

movement: Italian Renaissance (4) | German Renaissance (4) | Renaissance (2) | Flemish Primitives (2) | Hellenistic sculpture (2) | Symbolism (1) | archaic sculpture (1) | Etruscan art (1) | Yoruba art (1)

genre: ukiyo-e (19) | nishiki-e (15) | landscape art (14) | shunga (11) | portrait (10) | Bijinga (9) | religious art (7) | genre painting (5) | nude (4) | Yakusha-e (4) | Musha-e (4) | self-portrait (3) | cityscape (3) | mythological painting (3) | mythological sculpture (3) | statue (2) | black-figure pottery (2) | religious painting (2)

named after: Ur (1) | Sydney Burney (1)

based on: New Testament (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Discobolus (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Triumph of Titus and Vespasian (1) | A Farrier shoeing a Piebald Horse (1) | 1617 Reformation centenary broadsheet (1) | Landscape with a Rock Arch (1) | Landscape with Travellers and Bathers (1)

artist: J. M. W. Turner (19) | Kitagawa Utamaro (18) | anonymous (13) | Albrecht Dürer (6) | Rembrandt (4) | William Blake (4) | William Hogarth (4) | Utagawa Kuniyoshi (4) | Sharaku (4) | Michelangelo (3) | Leonardo da Vinci (2) | Vincent van Gogh (2) | Katsushika Hokusai (2) | Maria Sibylla Merian (2) | Phidias (2) | Elisabetta Sirani (2) | Margaret Sarah Carpenter (2) | Francisco Goya (1)

part of the series: Utamakura (11) | Hari-shigoto (3) | Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters of the Yoshiwara (3) | Honchō suikoden gōyū 800 nin hitori (2) | Jesus Christ (1) | One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1) | Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1) | Fujin Sōgaku Jittai (1) | Zashiki Hakkei (1) | A Mirror of Beauties of the Past and Present (1) | Yomo no Nishiki Kokyō no Tabiji (1) | Otoko-yama Oedo no Ishizue (1) | Katakiuchi Noriyai Banashi (1) | Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna (1)

depicts: woman (16) | man (14) | sky (10) | sexual intercourse (9) | cloud (5) | Virgin Mary (4) | nudity (4) | barque (4) | painting (4) | lion (3) | house cat (3) | Jesus Christ (3) | child (3) | body of water (3) | textile (3) | Apollo (3) | wall (3) | bull (3)

material used: paper (38) | watercolor paint (24) | marble (13) | ink (11) | oil paint (7) | graphite (5) | bronze (5) | granite (5) | ivory (5) | wood (3) | gold (3) | terracotta (3) | black chalk (3) | pen (2) | calcite (2) | paint (2) | chalk (2) | vellum (2)

location: London (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | room 25, British Museum (2) | Acropolis of Athens (1) | Library of Congress (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | National Portrait Gallery (1) | Rembrandt House Museum (1) | Collections of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (1) | Kupferstich-Kabinett (1) | Art Gallery of Ontario (1) | Wallraf–Richartz Museum (1) | Louvre Palace (1) | museum's storage space (1) | The Morgan Library & Museum (1) | Slovak National Gallery (1)

part of: Parthenon (2) | The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1) | A History of the World in 100 Objects (1) | Magdalenian (1) | Natufian culture (1) | Old Babylonian Empire (1) | Tomb of Nebamun (1) | Parthenon Frieze (1) | Mesopotamian mythology (1) | Isin-Larsa period (1) | Chatsworth Apollo (1) | Big Head Shahnameh (1)

country of origin: Japan (5) | Egypt (1) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Rituels grecs : une expérience sensible (2) | Europeana 280 (1) | Francis I and the art of the Netherlands (1) | Meiji, Splendeurs du Japon impérial (1868-1912) (1) | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War (1) | Black is beautiful: Rubens tot Dumas (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (2) | adultery (1) | William Camden (1) | Coronation of the Virgin (1) | lamentation of Christ (1) | crucifixion (1)

location of final assembly: Japan (1) | Constantinople (1) | Isfahan (1) | Tabriz (1) | Attica (1) | Gilan Province (1)

published in: Europe, a Prophecy (1)

fabrication method: bas-relief (2) | woodcut technique (1) | relief sculpture (1) | Woodblock printing in Japan (1) | wash (1) | trois crayons (1)

Elijah rescuing Prince Nur ad-Dahr from drowning in a river

painting
by Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (1570s)
man boy river Elijah

Prudhoe Lions

sculpture
(-1370)
lion

Rustam Mourns Suhrab (British Museum 1922,0711,0.2)

painting
by Muin Musavvir (1649)

Townley Discobolus

sculpture

針仕事 中

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro (1795)
textile woman semi nude

Gayer-Anderson cat

sculpture
(664)
house cat

Franks Casket

sculpture / archaeological find / reliquary
(8th century)
Adoration of the Magi Wayland the Smith Romulus and Remus Siege of Jerusalem

nkisi of an animal

figurine

1617 Reformation centenary broadsheet (Göttlicher Schrifftmessiger)

engraving
by anonymous (1617)
man Martin Luther All Saints' Church Leo X quill

A Woman Lying awake in Bed

drawing
by Rembrandt (17th century)

Boy with a sack

etching
by Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1820s)

Two drumming Moors on mules

drawing
by Rembrandt (1638)

The Whore of Babylon

painting
by William Blake (1809)

A Salon

watercolor painting
by J. M. W. Turner (19th century)
salon group of humans sitting fauteuil woman dress conversation

Statue of Idrimi

sculpture / inscription
(-1th millennium)

歌まくら 第二図

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro (1778)
Hibachi Tetsubin letter

Borradaile Triptych

triptych / sculpture
(10th century)
Jesus Christ

歌まくら 第七図

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro (1778)
None Sake set Rice wine cup 茶筅髷 widow sexual intercourse

[no title]

print
by Francisco Goya (1810)

Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo

statue
Apollo

Tutankhamon offerente

statue
(-1325)
Tutankhamon

Chatsworth Apollo

sculpture / hypothetical artwork
by anonymous (-460s)

Burial of Saint Catherine

engraving
by Cornelis Cort (1575)
Catherine of Alexandria

針仕事 右

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro (1795)
kettle house cat child 手鏡 textile woman

Figure of a pig 1859,1226.30

statuette
(-3th century)
pig votive offering sacrifice

[no title]

sculpture
(-883)
Lamassu

[no title]

sculpture
Sphinx

I no Koku

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro

Estatua caliza de la Reina Ahmose-Meritamon

sculpture
Ahmose-Meritamun

Allegoria dell'Abbondanza

drawing
by Sandro Botticelli (1480)
woman putto cornucopia

[no title]

watercolor painting
by J. M. W. Turner (1798)
porte-cochère house manor house sky gable window arch

Orford Castle Suffolk South East / A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk

print
by Henry Davy (1827)
Orford Castle

[no title]

sculpture
(15th century)
Mictlantecuhtli

Grosvenor House, No. 105

engraving
(1820)
man swimming cattle

Copper Bull

sculpture
(-25th century)
bull

Head of a Black Woman

drawing
by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1660)
woman

Townley Venus

sculpture

Estatua de Kurlil

sculpture
(-2500)

Self-portrait

painting
by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1812)
woman Margaret Sarah Carpenter

Statue of Ashurnasirpal II

sculpture
(-8nd century)

Nebamun garden

fresco
by anonymous (-1380)

The Library at Tottenham

watercolor painting
by John Scarlett Davis (1835)
painting art collection library

Study for the Madonna of the Cat

design drawing
by Leonardo da Vinci (15th century)
Virgin Mary Child Jesus house cat

歌まくら 第八図

woodcut print
by Kitagawa Utamaro (1778)
cherry blossom Tenugui sexual intercourse

[no title]

sculpture
(-680)