After the Spanish invasions in Mexico, many objects associated with Indigenous religion and knowledge were burned or destroyed.
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Talavera poblana, the distinct blue-and-white ceramics from Puebla Mexico, have a complex and fascinating history of transpacific and transatlantic connections.
Talavera poblana
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Han’s Night-Shining White exemplifies the expressive power of the line, the backbone of Chinese painting.
Han Gan, Night-Shining White
The quality of the carvings on the Middle Kingdom White Chapel is exceptional.
The White Chapel
The Đông Sơn drum developed an important status in Southeast Asia and they can be considered one of the first animated objects of the Bronze Age.
Đông Sơn Drums
To the Front! is a widely circulated print that sought to denounce the inaction of those in power.
Hu Yichuan, To the Front!
In this captivating oil painting, Xu Beihong recounts an ancient legend that pictures the heroic 3rd-century B.C.E. prince Tian Heng at a pivotal moment.
Xu Beihong, Tian Heng and His Five ...
In Flying in the Rain, Gao Jianfu pictured a squadron of biplanes emerging from cloudy skies in loose formation.
Gao Jianfu, Flying in the Rain
Goan sculptors created images of the divine in ivory that are at once Catholic, European, and South Asian.
Christian art in India: Indo-Portuguese ivory statuettes
A Thai Buddhist monastery combines elements of the solemn and the fun, allowing it to serve a wide range of spiritual, aesthetic, and social needs.
Thai Buddhist Monasteries
The main temple of Sukuh, with its pyramid-like appearance, is unlike any other on Java.
Sukuh, a mountain sanctuary
Wat Phra Kaew stands as an important monument that reflects the best of Thai craftsmanship and artistry since the late 18th century.
Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald ...
The ancient Egyptian desire to craft an ideal afterlife led to a later (incorrect) perception that they were obsessed with death.
Private tombs, portals to the afterlife
There was a huge range of experimentation that occurred over Egypt’s long history of mummification, some techniques being far more successful than others.
Mummification and funeral rites
Mortuary texts represent an ongoing, ever-evolving tradition that provides valuable insight into the afterlife beliefs and goals of the ancient Egyptians
Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts
Mosques, tombstones, textiles, and murals are only a few examples of the art and architecture created on the Indian subcontinent in the sultanates.
Sultanate art and architecture, an introduction
Osiris, Isis, Horus, Ra, Hathor, Seth, Taweret—With more than 1,500 named deities, the Egyptian pantheon was complex and vast
Egyptian deities
The Abbasid caliphs spared no expense to build a palatial city of grand buildings and sprawling residential complexes
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