Garden Gathering: detail

Tiles, Iran, Safavid; stonepaste; painted and polychrome glazed (cuerda seca technique)

Venus Shooting an Arrow Through an Opening of the Tower: detail, from Le Roman de la Rose

Manuscript, French, 15C; tempera, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard

The Harvesters: detail of left

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on wood

Tile with Image of Phoenix: detail

Tiles, Iran, Ilkhanid; 1 ft. 2 49/64 in. x 1 ft. 2 1/4 in.; stonepaste; modeled, underglaze painted in blue and turquoise, luster-painted on opaque white ground

Mérode Altarpiece, center panel, Annunciation: detail

Robert Campin; oil on panel

The Tower of Babel: detail

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

Netherlandish Proverbs: detail of center

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

Mérode Altarpiece, center panel, Annunciation: detail

Robert Campin, workshop of; oil on panel

Mérode Altarpiece, left wing, Donors: detail

Robert Campin, workshop of; oil on oak

Mérode Altarpiece, right wing, Joseph: detail

Robert Campin, workshop of; oil on oak

Mérode Altarpiece, right wing, Joseph: detail

Robert Campin, workshop of; oil on oak

The Triumph of Death: detail

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; tempera and oil on panel

Parable of the Blind: detail of center figure

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; tempera on canvas

Mlle. V...in Costume of an Espada: detail

Édouard Manet; oil on canvas

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

Bernardo Daddi; tempera and gold leaf on panel