Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

how do you live?

[ID: A realistic digital painting of a grey heron. Colorful red, green, and blue parakeets and white pelicans fly towards the upper left. The heron bends its head down and around and catches the wing of one of the pelicans in its beak. The heron stares at the viewer. The background is yellow orange. The shading is detailed but unblended with hard edges. The signature "@/ciearcab" is overlayed near the center of the image. End ID]

Bride’s yuzen-painted furisode.  1930s, Japan. A kinsha (fine crepe) silk furisode featuring bold and graphic yuzen-painted pine, crane and wave motifs. Gold foil outlining. The embroidery highlights include sagara (tiny knots) on the crane heads, metallic embroidery on crane tail-feathers, and simple silk embroidery on crane feathers as well as on the red waves and yellow pine branches on the tips of the sleeves and lower front, to yield strategic light reflection areas to enhance the overall effect when the garment moved. Bokashi shading on all the oversized pines. The hem on this tall garment is slightly padded, as it was intended to fall and drape slightly on the floor. Five mon (family crests).  The Kimono Gallery



Adriana Varejao - ARCO, 2018

Şahinbey Millet Camii

Photos by my friend in Turkey.

Custom Monica Ivena

Elihu Vedder - Pleiades (1885)

The little world next door

chinese hanfu

Dominique Papety (French, 1815-1849) • Greek Women at the Fountain • 1841 • Musée du Louvre

Salvadorese dancers, El Salvador, by sjb5

Ascendance

Thomas Cole: The Course of Empire (1833–1836)