Carrying of the Cross: thief in front of the cart and onlookers

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on panel

Netherlandish Proverbs, related material: misericords of a napping monk and a foolish jester

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; 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

Group of Two Women and a Child

Sculpture, Egyptian, Middle Kingdom to early New Kingdom; 2 51/64 in.x 1 11/16 in.x 3 15/64 in.; painted limestone

Tomb of Amenhotep, excavated artifact, Yuni and His Wife Renenutet, front view

Asyut, Egypt; 2 ft. 9 17/64 in.x 1 ft. 9 29/64 in.x 2 ft. 4 47/64 in.; painted limestone

The Tower of Babel: tower and city

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

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

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

Bernardo Daddi; 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

The Fight between Carnival and Lent: detail of center

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on wood

Life of Tao Yuanming, section 4, right side: Tao Yuanming and a servant looking at birds in flight

Li Zai; handscroll, ink on paper

Life of Tao Yuanming, section 4, right side: detail of Tao Yuanming and a servant looking at birds in flight

Li Zai; handscroll, ink on paper

Double Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm I and Louise Henriette

Gerrit van Honthorst and studio; 7 ft. 2 39/64 in.x 5 ft. 11 17/64 in.; oil on canvas

Company of Captain Albert Bas and Lieutenant Lucan Conjin

Govert Flinck; 11 ft. 4 39/64 in.x 8 ft. 1/16 in.; oil on canvas

Inner Left Wing of an Altarpiece with the Wedding Feast of St Elizabeth and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg

Master of the Saint. Elizabeth Panels; 4 ft. 2 9/32 in.x 3 ft. 7 7/64 in.; oil on panel