Travel Photography Photos tagged as art
Hewn from the sheer rockface, these temples, monasteries and schools took many hands and hundreds of years to carve.
Bamberg Town Hall
Sculptural Work at Esplanade Mall in Singapore.
The sculptural work of the artist mimes the ubiquitous plastic rubbish bag in the unlikeliest ways. Using robust yet slight material, he has created a series of ethereal figures suspended, almost floating in their exhibition space, yet formed with sculptural precision and great attention to detail.
Gold casket containing the remains of the 3 Magi which were a source of great wealth and power to the bishop of Cologne for Centuries
Donors got to put their stamp on panels of 13th Century Stained Glass
This was - hidden in the back of the main Mosque was mesmerising
This wall was exquisite....
In the Kunst Museum, Tallinn.
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The head of Ramesis II in the Luxor Temple - immaculate symmetry.
A regional art form based on the Moghul painting style. This has been hand painted on a plate made from crushed camel bone and resin. The brush may consist of just one hair from a squirrel's tail and the painter can only work for 20-30 minutes at a time
Folk dancers from different parts of Rajasthan performed a series of colourful, rhythmic and, at times, positively hazardous dances.
This detail from the main temple at Ranakpur shows how every square inch of the temples is covered in carvings of characters and Gods from the Jain mythology and history. The temple is exquisite and the young priest that showed us around was justifiably proud of where he worshipped