BELIEFS and PRACTICES
The destroyer deity SHIVA is associated with THIS religion, one of the oldest in the world, founded in India.
HINDUISM!
THIS contemporary artist, famous for using his artwork to engage with social issues in his communities, made an artwork in 1994 that functioned like a real-life barber shop.
PEPON OSORIO!
This is the term used for a manuscript that features the use of gold and or silver.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT!
THIS SACRED SPACE is located in Ravenna, Italy and is filled with mosaics that are both spiritually and politically important.
SAN VITALE!
It was in July of 1969 in a cave in Namibia (Africa) that these were discovered.
THE APOLLO 11 STONES!
Artists of the Medieval Byzantine Empire often used THIS painting medium on wood to create their beloved icons.
ENCAUSTIC!
This winged goddess was the best friend of the ancient Greek goddess Athena.
NIKE!
Around 1200 C.E. during the Gothic period in Europe, the veneration of THIS famous mother surged in popularity.
THE VIRGIN MARY!
This wizard-like and futuristic contemporary artist liked to engage his audience with electronics, including televisions with rapidly moving images and neon lights.
NAM JUNE-PAIK!
The reliquary of THIS FAMOUS CHRISTIAN SAINT of Conques, France is covered with gold and gemstones, which were gifts from pilgrims of the Medieval era.
SAINTE FOY!
Santa Sabina, a Late Antique church in Rome, sits atop this.
A HILL! (THE AVENTINE HILL)
The first and largest chamber of the painted prehistoric cave system in Lascaux, France, famously features (in part) these powerful, horned animals.
BULLS!
Magdalena Abakanowicz didn't have much to make art with in her native Poland when it was under Communist control, so she used this material that was readily available and easy to store, which she continued to use for the majority of her career.
BURLAP!
This interesting and mysterious object was discovered in a royal ancient cemetery in Mesopotamia, and was created using lots of lapis lazuli!
This famous domed sacred space started off as a church, became a mosque in the 15th Century, and finally became a museum in 1935. Oh wait - it became a mosque again in 2020.
HAGIA SOPHIA !
The innermost sarcophagus of THIS FAMOUS ANCIENT RULER is made of nearly 230 pounds of solid gold.
KING TUTANKHAMUN! KING TUT.
It was in a scriptorium on this holy British island that a glorious codex of the gospels was made, filled with birds and everything!
Lindisfarne!
This famous British site was built using basic post and lintel construction, using mortise and tenon joint connections.
STONEHENGE!
The artificial and imported blue used by Hokusai in his Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji series was called this former European name.
PRUSSIAN BLUE!
Staff gods wrapped in tapa to protect their mana were a sacred artistic tradition of THIS POLYNESIAN ISLAND CULTURE.
Raratongan! (Raratonga)
This serene and orderly monkly meeting space designed by Brunelleschi can be found in Florence adjacent to the church of Santa Croce.
PAZZI CHAPEL!
In this sacred space, pilgrims can walk the labyrinth embedded into the nave floor, before they move onward to view the sancta camisa.
CHARTRES CATHEDRAL!
This royal mother commissioned one of the most illuminated and expensive moral bibles for her young son Louis IX. Yasssss queen!
Queen Blanche of Castille!
This mandala-shaped Buddhist sacred space can be found in jungles a Java, Indonesia.
BOROBUDUR!
Most prehistoric Chinese JADE CONGS have been found in these.
GRAVES!
Originally the orange-red lipstick part of Oldenburg's 1969 Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks was not made of steel, as we see it today, but instead was created using this technique / material.
INFLATABLE (PLASTIC)!
South Korean contemporary artist Song Su-nam used this traditional east Asian drawing material to create his work Summer Trees.
Ink!
Weary travelers along the silk road would stop at this this colossally magnificent valley sacred sculpture, where they could actually circumambulate his feet.
THE BAMIYAN BUDDHA!
This temple, located in southern Egypt, would immerse the worshipper in a sacred experience that brought them back to the nothingness of the beginning of time.
TEMPLE OF AMUN-RE AT KARNAK!
This East Asian Kingdom created golden crowns that looked trees covered with ripe fruits.
THE SILLA KINGDOM!
It was atop the right right side of the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan that the Mexica (Aztec) people would make sacrifices in honor of this god of sun and war.
Huitzilopochtli
During the prehistoric era in what we now call Mexico, the v-shaped bone of a camelid was used to sculpt an image of THIS by a resourceful artist.
A CANINE (DOG)!
Started in 1066 C.E. in this French city, people usually call me a tapestry - but I am actually embroidered!
BAYEUX!
It was IN THIS YEAR that Christo and Jeanne-Claude began requesting permission from the borough of Manhattan to install The Gates in Central Park.
1979!
It is believed at this sacred object fell into the lap of Osei Tutu around the year 1800 C.E..
THE GOLDEN STOOL!
In this contemporary work, part of an immersive installation called Nirvana, viewers could see the artist floating around a Dead Sea looking environment with symbolic references to the religion or Buddhism.
PURE LAND!
At this sacred Andean site, many golden jewelry items have been discovered, which are believed to have been worn by shamans to make them look as if they were transforming into animals.
CHAVIN DE HUANTAR!
This contemporary nation has a simplified image of Angkor Wat, the largest sacred space in the world, in the center of their nation's flag.
CAMBODIA!
The AMBUM STONE is thought to have functioned a pestle, so the prehistoric artists who carved it used this durable stone.
GREYWACKE!
These were originally made by Lenape native artists with porcupine quills, but later after trade with Europeans, they switched to using seed beads.
BANDOLIER BAGS!
German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was part of this German Expressionist movement of the early 20th Century.
Die Brücke (The Bridge)!