The 2025 Lunar New Year, begins on January 29th. This is the Year of the Wood Snake, sixth animal of the Chinese zodiac, known for wisdom and intuition. Let us take a look at some of the East Asian art history that celebrates this awesome animal!
Candy Bedworth 28 January 2025
Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Those 250 years were a time of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 28 January 2025
Step into the captivating world of Japanese woodblock prints, where intricate designs and vibrant colors combine to tell stories of tradition,...
Joanna Kaszubowska 28 January 2025
Hokusai’s Great Wave from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige’s The Plum Garden in Kameido from One Hundred Famous Views of...
Irina Diana Calu 28 January 2025
Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) was one of Japan’s most important and prolific printmakers and artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a...
Isabella Hill 28 January 2025
For centuries, gore has been part of the culture in Japan, rooted in its history. Its representation is very common in woodblock engraving pictures.
Sofia Rodriguez Cuevas 28 January 2025
Pieter Bruegel The Elder was a prominent Flemish painter of the 16th century, famed for his vivid, often humorous depictions of peasant life and...
Guest Author 27 January 2025
The Lotus Temple is renowned for its distinctive lotus shape. A prominent Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi, the temple embodies...
Maya M. Tola 27 January 2025
Until 1972, the Museen zu Berlin exhibited, among other things, a teapot and its accompanying set. From above, the teapot is around 22 centimetres...
Geoffrey Bunting 27 January 2025
There are already several articles that treat in detail the life and works of Francisco Goya. If you want to learn about his career or most famous...
Magda Michalska 27 January 2025
Why did Michelangelo portray Moses with horns? Why are there monkeys in Giulio Romano’s Chamber of Giants? And why does the Nativity scene...
Arianna Richetti 27 January 2025
Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 January 2025
