Sunan Kalijaga is also credited with bringing music, dance, and puppet theater to Java, thus claiming for Islam the Javanese performing arts that preceded it. Scholars of Javanese traditions have ...
The visual arts allows us to understand people of earlier eras: visual literacy reveals many things about what these people did, knew, and believed. Examining the geometric patterns that characterize ...
What could be more quintessentially English than William Morris’s interior designs? The sumptuous repeating patterns created by the chief founder of Britain’s 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement — ...