Many cultural currents converged to encourage Florentines to develop three-dimensional perspective in the 15th century. Yesterday’s article examined several and we’ll explore more here. Several
In Florence around 1410, the artist and architect Filippo Brunelleschi created a sensation. He had painted an image of Florence’s baptistery (shown in the two
I just wrote several articles about Sukhothai art, and I hope you get addicted to it. But it also has a dark side. This man
Sukhothai’s graceful architecture spreads from its central ritual center and ripples through the surrounding area. All species and Thailand’s gentle art forms blend into
Angkor Wat commands but Sukhothai floats you through the heavens. Its central shrine, Wat Mahathat, isn’t big enough to dominate the perspective as you walk around
Thailand’s artistic heritage in Sukhothai enchanted me the first time I went there, in 2007. It impressed me as much as Angkor Wat, which I
Thais and Cambodians share a long border, but like French and Germans, their cultures have dramatically different traits. Some of Sukhothai’s temples blend both. Wat
King Jayavarman VII, the most prolific builder in the Khmer Empire’s history, added even more luster to Angkor by constructing two goliaths next to its
Angkor was one of the world’s largest cities in the Middle Ages, and its center was as lively as you’d expect such a place to
To this day historians aren’t sure how ancient Egyptians raised obelisks. There are well-educated surmises though. The most plausible ways required an enormous amount