Prince: Did you mean...?

Asian Art Museum Storyteller Leta Bushyhead tells a story about how a prince became a Buddha using artworks in the museum's collection.

An artist's depiction of a bedridden young prince in the ancient Mediterranean, likely Greece or Macedon. From the game Old World.

An 1846 family portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter showing Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901), Albert, Prince Consort, and their then five children. (Royal Collection)

A later Mughal painting, as practiced at provincial centers such as Lucknow during the 18th century, where "a less imperial and more leisurely, graceful style" was adopted. This painting depicts a Mughal prince...

Kartli/Iberia coin of Prince Stephanos I, first emission. Silver. Weight – 2,9 gr. d=28mm. Obverse: Ohrmazd IV to the right. Legend in Pehlevi: hrm – aphzu (Ohrmazd Augustus). This is placed within onefold...

The death of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806) in the Battle of Saalfeld (10 October 1806) during the War of the Fourth Coalition. Painting by Peter Edward Stroehling, c. 1806-1816. Royal Collection...

The death of Prince Józef Poniatowski on 19 October 1813, during the Battle of Leipzig. Oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1816.

Portrait of future French marshal and Polish national hero Prince Józef Poniatowski as a youth, c. 1778. Oil on canvas by Marcello Bacciarelli. National Museum of Krakow.

A mid-16th century CE portrait by William Scrots of Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE) when he was the Prince of Wales.

A detail of the sandstone warrior figures often called the “Prince of Glauberg’, excavated at the site in Hesse, Germany. It is an example of La Tène culture sculpture and dates to the second half of the 5th century...