Return of the Herd: houses at upper left

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on wood

Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizam

Manuscript, Islamic, Timurid; 8 1/2 in.x 4 39/64 in. (image); ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Tomb, excavated artifact, Rabbits, Birds, Bamboo and Flowers, center portion: birds and flowers; from the western interior wall of the outer (xiaozhang) coffin

Liaoning. Faku. Yemaotai; hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

Parable of the Blind: detail of center figure

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; tempera on canvas

Parable of the Blind: man falling into ditch

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; tempera on canvas

The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul: detail of the Virgin Mary

Bernardo Daddi; tempera and gold leaf on panel

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone; 1 ft. 5 3/4 in. x 1 ft. 5 1/4 in.; one of a series of six panels, tempera and gold leaf on panel

Saint John on Patmos, The Virgin and Child Enthroned, and the Death of the Virgin, left wing of a diptych

Pacino di Bonaguida; 2 ft. 3/8 in. x 1 ft. 3 63/64 in.; tempera and gold leaf on panel

Carrying of the Cross

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; 4 ft. 13/16 in. x 5 ft. 6 59/64 in.; oil on oak

Carrying of the Cross: landscape at left

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

Carrying of the Cross, center portion: Christ falling, soldiers with lances, surrounding figures

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

Carrying of the Cross: peasant with a knapsack on back

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

The Adoration of the Magi

Geertgen tot Sint Jans; 3 ft. 1/16 in.x 2 ft. 4 17/64 in.; oil on panel

The Adoration of the Magi

Jan Mostaert; 1 ft. 8 5/64 in.x 1 ft. 2 3/8 in.; oil on panel

Tomb Chapel of Nebamun, interior, The pool in Nebamun's estate garden: date-palms, sycomores and mandrakes hedge the pool which teems with fish and fowl; the goddess of the sycomore, surrounded by her produce, is shown in the top right-hand corner

Thebes (deserted settlement), Egypt; H: 2 ft. 1 13/64 in.; W: 2 ft. 4 47/64 in. (painting); painted plaster