who had the wealth and the foresight to commission this portrait from Lindauer in 1884. 他的远见和财富使他能委托林道尔 在1884年创作这一幅肖像画 Now, what's really significant is that when Lindauer was painting portraits of Ma...
There's a criminal who has been arrested here. 这里有一个被逮捕的黑人罪犯 There are the boatmen, who are ferrying people across the river, 还有黑人船夫 正在渡人过河 but there's also figures like this, this is a black knight, 但...
On one corner of the tower 贝伦塔的一角 is a celebrated trophy of Portuguese globalism. 展示着葡萄牙全球化的战利品 It's a rhinoceros, modelled on a real animal 这是一头犀牛 以真实动物为原型 sent by an Indian prince as...
It's an expression of elegance and power. 它表达的是优雅与权力 But most intriguing is her crown. 但最复杂的部分是她的王冠 It's a row of tiny bearded faces, 王冠上是一排小小的蓄着胡须的脸 symbolising the seafaring...
family by family, generation by generation, 以家庭为单位 祖祖辈辈流传下来 and today the bronze-casters of Benin, like their predecessors, 现在的贝宁青铜雕刻者就和祖辈一样 are members of an exclusive guild, 是这种独家行...
Ideas that underpinned an empire. 这些观念构成了整个帝国的基础 The public were fascinated, 公众在沉迷的同时 but also troubled by what they saw. 也对眼见所见感到忧虑 What bothered them was that 他们困惑的是 this w...
Jahangir's favourite wife, Nur Jahan. 贾汉吉尔最喜爱的妻子 努尔.贾汗 She was the child of a Persian father, Mirza Beg, 她的父亲米尔扎.贝格是波斯人 Jahangir's closest adviser. 是贾汉吉尔最亲近的谋士 When he died,...
Some of the miniatures he copied still exist 他复制的一些细密画现在还留有原作 and they make a fascinating contrast with Rembrandt's versions. 它们与伦勃朗的版本形成了鲜明对比 This is a painting of the Emperors Akbar an...
One angle of the parallelogram 整个平行四边形的一个角 is made by that rhythm of the lines, 是由这些线条构成的 of the spear, the gun, the partisan. 矛 枪 还有游击队员 On the other hand, it's made by the baton of the captain...
And if there were a lot of them, 如果人很多 the artist elasticated the format accordingly 画家会相应地调整设计 to get everyone in. 好让所有人都能进入画面 But then there was Rembrandt. 但后来伦勃朗出现了 And what he...
