The Brooklyn Museum’s galleries of the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World reopened with a 20,000-square-foot installation displaying 700-plus works
Carved in red sandstone around the 11th or 12th century, a beautiful Indian maiden tilts her head, possibly to catch her reflection in a mirror as she rims her eye with kohl, an ancient cosmetic.
Made more than 1,000 years earlier for a Han tomb in China, two guardians with masklike faces and bulging eyes perch atop pillars on which etched dragons slither and swirl. Painted in jewel tones and hair-thin lines in late 15th-century Iran, a horseback rider swivels in the saddle, the better to pull on the lasso around his enemy’s neck.
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