Places of worship - Caves transformed into places of meditation and worship for spiritual seekers. Art and architecture preserved - The rock-cut structures and sculptures inside caves preserved ancient Indian art for millennia. Tourist attraction - Many cave temples are major tourist attractions today ...
Among them, calligraphy (书法), poetry (诗歌) and painting were the most famous. Often they would be put together in art. Calligraphy is the art of handwriting. In ancient times, the Chinese considered writing as an important form of art. Calligraphers would practise for years to learn to ...
Ancient Pottery (from 18,000 BCE) Contents • Introduction • What Types of Pottery Are There? • How is Pottery Decorated? • Where and When Was Pottery Invented? • Why Did Pottery First Appear in China? • History and Development of Pottery • Paleolithic Pottery • Neolithic...
It is characterized by more advanced hunter-gathering, fishing and rudimentary forms of cultivation. Neolithic Era (From 8,000-4,000 BCE to 2000 BCE) This era is characterized by farming, domestication of animals, settled communities and the emergence of important ancient civilizations (eg. ...
An elegy is a mournful poetic form, the origins of which can be traced back to a combination of Ancient Greek poetics and Old English scriptures from the 11th Century, written to lament a death. Given the form’s long and rich history, you could point to a plethora of the most well-kn...
Many ancient buildings are decorated with relief sculptures. However, the most frequently known relief carving/sculpture is a coin. The images marked on coins (of all cultures) are examples of bas relief (low relief) artwork. What do the terms "high relief" and "low relief" refer to in ...
An elegy is a mournful poetic form, the origins of which can be traced back to a combination of Ancient Greek poetics and Old English scriptures from the 11th Century, written to lament a death. Given the form’s long and rich history, you could point to a plethora of the most well-kn...
Ancient buildings with more than one storey were meant for a variety of uses. The smaller two-storeyed buildings of private homes generally have the owner's study or bedroom upstairs. The more magnificent ones built in parks or at scenic spots were belvederes from which to enjoy the distant ...
The earliest known works of the Stone Age are The Venus of Berekhat Ram and The Venus of Tan-Tan, both primitive effigies dating to 230,000 BCE or earlier. Thereafter, sculptors have been active in all ancient civilizations, and all major art movements up to the present. After Egyptian ...
around which quantities ofhanivahave been found - ceramic cylinders topped by figures of retainers, women, animals and houses. According to an ancient text,hanivawere substitutes for the living people and real objects which had in former times accompanied the great into the grave - though archeol...