AsianWelcome to the Asian Art Gallery. Offered here are ancient artifacts and antiques from Japan and China as well as rare antiques from throughout Asia. This gallery will be regularly updated so check back often. Please ask if you would like additional photos or more in-depth descriptions. ...
Stone Age Asian art includes the Bhimbetka Petroglyphs in caves in central India. These petroglyphs, or rock carvings, are in the shape of cupules, circular indentations in the rock. We don't know what they meant, but they were made purposely by human hands. Architecture in the Indus Vall...
The Christian West The Renaissance Baroque and Rococo Classicism, 1750–1830 Gothic Revival, c. 1730–c. 1930 Classicism, 1830–1930 Late 19th-century developments 20th-century architecture Architecture at the turn of the 21st century References & Edit HistoryRelated Topics ...
Probably contemporary with both predynastic and dynastic times are thousands of rock drawings of a wide range of motifs, including boats, found throughout theEastern Desert, inLower Nubia, and as far west as Mount ʿUwaynāt, which stands near modern Egypt’s borders withLibyaandSudanin the ...
and that annually thousands of travellers visit Java with the sole purpose to admire the Barabudur, the most famous monument of the East, and other ancient Javanese works of art, we seldom realize that the same antiquities, so highly appreciated now, met with the derision and indifference of ...
From them, the West learns such things as Fengshui and other concepts that are uniquely Chinese. China has taken steps to further this spread of its culture by establishing Chinese Cultural Centers in such places as the United States and Europe. 中国传统文化开始受到世界的关注。即使传统上被认为...
Jade occupies a special place in Chinese artisticculture, valued asgoldis in the West but hallowed with even loftiermoralconnotations. TheShuowenjiezi(“Discussions of Writings and Explanations of Character”) ofXu Shendefined jade (yu) as follows: ...
Phoenician navigators sent by Necho II rounded Africa from east to west. Necho II, Psamtik II, and Apries fought with Babylonia for Syria and Palestine. The weakened Egyptian forces, however, were unable to repulse the army of the Persian king Cambyses and in 525 B.C. Egypt was ...
(theIsthmus of Corinth, in modern times pierced by theCorinth Canal) and an east-west route. This second route wasexploitedin a special way. Corinth had two ports, Lechaeum to the west on the Gulf of Corinth and Cenchreae to the east on theSaronic Gulf. Between the two seas there ...
map is dated about 1137. Most of the area that is now included in China had been mapped in crude form before the arrival of the Europeans. The Jesuit missionaries of the 16th century found enough information to prepare an atlas, and Chinese maps thereafter were influenced by the West. ...