The angry ducks of Bada Shanren.
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A red so rare, so impossible to make, the process was lost before the end of the Ming Dynasty.
A Ritual Ming dish
The majesty of Yosemite National Park — with Roger Minick and the woman with the scarf.
Roger Minick, Woman with Scarf at Inspiration ...
Learn about tea-ceremonies, opulent palaces, and splashed-ink paintings from Japan's Kamakura to Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
A brief history of the arts of ...
Learn about Japan's famous haniwa, tales from behind palace walls, and enormous wooden buddhas.
A brief history of the arts of ...
Meet a terra-cotta dog from four thousand years ago, the Kushan emperor Kanishka and visit Hindu sculptures in Madhya Pradesh.
A brief history of the art of ...
In the late sixteenth century, European publications about the Americas had few illustrations, so printmakers felt free to invent imagery about the peoples and lands across the Atlantic.
Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, “The Discovery ...
The first book ever printed by an American author was Rhetorica Christiana by Diego de Valadés, who was born in Mexico to a Spanish conquistador father and an indigenous mother.
Engravings in Diego de Valadés’s Rhetorica Christiana
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest in the world. Learn about its colonial era history that began in the sixteenth century.
An introduction to colonial Brazil
Textiles remained important items after the Spanish conquest in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Churches were even painted with textile murals to endow these spaces with sacredness.
Textiles in the Colonial Andes
Christine de Pizan was an author and intellectual and wasn't afraid to show the strength of women in the early 15th century.
Christine de Pizan and a City of ...
Find out what happens to classical Renaissance architecture when it arrives in New Spain.
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
The goal of the eagle warrior was to capture the greatest number of captives, who would then be sacrificed to the Mexica gods. All warriors rose in rank according to the number of captives they acquired.
Eagle Warrior (Mexica)
Modern architecture in Mexico and Brazil adapts the ideas of Le Corbusier in surprising and important ways.
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Beyond Europe, mapping the origins of Brazilian modernism.
The origins of modern art in São ...
A fisherman and a woodcutter — at age 90, the great Japanese artist Hokusai painted these moving images of contentment.
Beyond the Great Wave — Hokusai at ...
Latin American artists in the nineteenth century developed interests in painting the local landscape as a way to create a sense of pride in their country’s past, present, and future.
Landscape painting in Nineteenth-Century Latin American
Get to know fifteenth-century Aragonese painting, which draws on Italian and Northern Renaissance influences.
The Renaissance in Spain, The Morata Master
Roll over Bellini, and tell Tintoretto the news. The Renaissance in Spain.
St. Michael defeats the devil in Renaissance ...
Frida Kahlo painted 55 self-portraits, demonstrating the importance of this genre to her artistic oeuvre.
