Trip to Japan

The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of Romanticism. Delacroix was influenced by thi...

Antonello da Messina, who according to Vasari learned the technique of oil painting directly from Van Eyck during a trip to Flanders, was the most important artist of the Sicilian ...

I've brough this brooch, which was my nanny's brooch. I grew up in the United States, in a tight-knit Irish American community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. All the branches of my...

Design composed of very schematic cherry blossoms in grey and pale yellow together with silhouettes of bats in flight, in green and blue with geometric decoration inside (grids). T...

On a black background, a set of white round elements outlined in blue, grey and green, with a central hole, joined together by groups of five with red cords. \The groups with the ...

On a violet background, vertical lines of green bamboo with branches of flowering trees between them. In the foreground, large reishi mushrooms in blue or brown, sharply outlined i...

I actually have two objects I want to share. The first is the ring that I got from my mom. The ring was given to my mom by her dad. She passed it on to me, I guess it was just befo...

Unpublished sound recordings of Indian songs, collected by Father Martin Gusinde, in Tierra del Fuego. Gusinde was the most important researcher in Tierra del Fuego, able to presen...