EditorialWindow shade and cornice, Hand painted silk, wood cornice, Vining floral design typical of Chinese hand painted wallpapers. In foreground, strange rock formation amid grassy plateaus, waterlillies in pond at right, two large predatory birds amidst smal...
EditorialFloating Iceberg and Iceflower, Frederic Edwin Church, American, 18261900, Graphite on green paper, Three sketches on a single sheet. At upper left, a floating iceberg with numerous plateaus. At right, a curious plant-like formation, ice flower. At low...
EditorialRama and Lakshmana Search in Vain for Sita, ca. 1680?90, India (Rajasthan, Mewar), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, 10 1/4 ? 16 1/4 in. (26 ? 41.3 cm), Paintings, ?Ranging the woods, hills, rivers, and lakes on every side, searching the plateaus, ca...
EditorialSalt Lake, Thibet. There are hundreds of salt lakes in the northern plateaus of Tibet, including the highest salt lake in the world. Nomads made journeys to these remote waters cradled by snow peaks, returning with salt-laden yak caravans to barter the...
EditorialSalt Lake, Thibet. There are hundreds of salt lakes in the northern plateaus of Tibet, including the highest salt lake in the world. Nomads made journeys to these remote waters cradled by snow peaks, returning with salt-laden yak caravans to barter the...
EditorialRama and Lakshmana Search in Vain for Sita, ca. 1680?90, India (Rajasthan, Mewar), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, 10 1/4 ? 16 1/4 in. (26 ? 41.3 cm), Paintings, ?Ranging the woods, hills, rivers, and lakes on every side, searching the plateaus, ca...
EditorialKero, 17th?18th century, Peru, Quechua, Wood, pigmented resin inlay, H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm), Wood-Containers, The painted faces on keros of this type indicate that they are meant to represent the forest-dwelling Anti. The eastern slopes of the Andes, d...