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Title: Saint John the Evangelist (panel from a double-sided polyptych) Artist: Master of Saint Francis (Italian, fl. ca. 1260-1280) Date: 1270s (?) Genre: religious art Period: Middle Ages Movement: Italo-Byzantine Medium: tempera on panel Dimensions: 48.3 cm (19 in) high x 22.5 cm (8.8 in) wide Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Strolling at Night Holding a Candle (aka Waiting for Guests by Lamplight), Ma Lin, ca. 1250
Boats Moored in Wind and Rain, unknown artist (formerly attributed to Yan Ciyu), 1200s (Jin or Yuan Dynasty)
The murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. Detail (paint, ink, and gold on paper) by an anonymous artist from the Carrow Psalter, produced in East Anglia ca. 1250. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
The Transfiguration. Folio (tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment) from a 13th century Byzantine manuscript by an unknown illuminator. Now in the Getty Center, Malibu, CA.
A mad dog bites a man. Miniature (gouache, ink, and gold on paper) from an Arabic translation of Dioscorides' Materia Medica, with calligraphy by Abdallah ibn al-Fadl; written in 1224. Now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Immortal Riding a Dragon, Ma Yuan, early 13th century
Japanese taishotoku bugaku mask (wood with polychromy). Artist unknown; 13th century (Kamakura period). Now in the Tokyo National Museum.
Head (wood, lacquer, pigment, rock crystal, and metal) of a Buddhist Guardian. Unknown Japanese artist; 13th century (Kamakura period). Now in the Brooklyn Museum. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum.
St. Peter, Giotto, 1290s
The fiery death of a phoenix. Miniature from the Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24), created by an unknown English artist ca. 1200.
Listening Quietly to Wind in the Pines, Ma Lin (1180-1256)
13th century Italian sardonyx glyptic depicting the Annunciation. Now in the Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich, Germany. Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.
Seated Ganesha (schist), from Karnataka state, India. Artist unknown; 13th century. Now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Wall tile (fritware) in the shape of an eight-pointed star, with a Chinese-style dragon. From Takht-i Sulayman (?), Iran, artist unknown; ca. 1270-75. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photo credit: David Jackson/Britain Loves Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons.
Anasazi water jar (olla) from the southwestern United States. Artist unknown; ca. 1100-1250. Now in the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Sculpture (black schist with remnants of gesso and puja pigment) of the Hindu elephant-headed deity Ganesha. Artist unknown; 13th or 14th century. Now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
