Malay heritage carvings were heavily influenced by Hindu-Buddhist culture before the dissemination of Islam. This is evidenced paintings mythical animals and floral motifs found on archaeological objects in Lembah Bujang. The arrival Islam Malaya 14th century finally brought great changes world carving, including Terengganu Kelantan. study aimed to identify initial used after Malaya. states Kel...

Wild and fantastical animals climb, fly, scamper, prance across pictorial stone carvings decorating Eastern Han tomb doors in northern Shaanxi. Alongside dragons other mythical animals, bears felicitously dance, tigers grin opening their mouths to roar, wild frolic swirling cloudscapes. While the same can be found reliefs mortuary art regions, frequency, emphasis on plasticity movement, combina...

The carved figural program of the tenth-century Gosforth Cross (Cumbria) has long been considered to depict Norse mythological episodes, leaving potential Christian iconographic import its Crucifixion carving underexplored. scheme is analyzed here using earlier exegetical texts and sculptural precedents explain function frame surrounding Christ, by demonstrating how icons were viewed understood...

Abstract Much stone sculptural and architectural heritage is crumbling, especially in intense tropical environments. This exemplified by significant losses on carvings made of tuff at the Classic Maya site Copan. Here we demonstrate that Copan primarily decays due to stress generated humidity-related clay swelling resulting spalling material loss, a damaging process appears be facilitated micro...

In Latin, lucidum means shiny or brilliant and aptly describes this mushroom’s fruiting body, which has a modeled, sculptured, varnished appearance. The Chinese and Koreans know it as Ling Zhi (mushroom of herb and immortality), whereas the Japanese call this mushroom reishi or mannentake (10,000 year mushroom). The virtues of G. lucidum extracts, handed down from generation to generation, incl...

To support the creative economy, ideas are needed which then transformed into concrete reality. One of is art craftsmen, for example, painting, sculpture, three-dimensional art, sculpture and many more. The promising craft today souvenir craft, has various forms functions. In this research, authors specialize in engraved souvenirs where most these craftsmen still work on their crafts using conv...

What does Heaven look like? Where do we go after we draw our last breath? Is there an afterlife? Such questions regarding the world that lies beyond daily human existence occupy a central place in almost all religious traditions. Picturing these distant realms, however, is not an easy matter. The more remote and otherworldly these places are, the harder it is to imagine them and give them shape...