Banarasi Ramlila Mask Making on the Wane
The craft of making Banarasi masks for Ramlila performances that once thrived in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi city, popularly known as Banaras, is now on…
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Why Do Indian Saree Borders Feature Gold?
In India, gold borders on sarees are rarely decorative. The gold strip can assume many different shapes and occasionally have symbolic meanings. The detailing…
Who Was Wassily Kandinsky?
Wassily Kandinsky in full Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944), was a Russian-born painter, a very influential figure in modern art
Why Were Early Maps Decorated?
Many early maps were decorated because the map-makers or cartographers had little real idea of geography and presented the world in symbolical terms. One…
Where Is the Hermitage Museum?
The Hermitage Museum, one of the great art museums of the world, was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great of Russia in St.…