Artwork of the Week!
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (b. 1937), "The Mappamundi Suite 4, Marichika II" 2003. Gouache on inkjet digital collage. From the collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur. Featured in "Paper Trails: Modern Indian Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection."

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From Ptolemy's 2nd c. to Beatus' 8th c. (here in a 1929 facsimile by Konrad Miller). The tripartite world is encircled with water; East, where Paradise lay, is at the top of the the Red Sea unmistakable in the South. A spatial-temporal worldview

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皆さんと集まることができない、美術館も閉館…。こんなときだからこそ、通信講座。第二回の配信開始しました。「中世ヨーロッパの世界地図を読む」

イギリス、ヘレフォード大聖堂に残る世界地図mappamundiを読み解きます。私のお気に入りはボナコンとガンジス。6月12日まで。https://t.co/2dOxXBUGCI

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- my Art medium is On clothing or on the wall and like the here in it will last for generations.

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