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Chapter 30 : Window on the World

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Plate W3.10 — Jia-2134
Title: Great Stupa
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
View: Total, view east northeast
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
Plate W3.13 — Jia-2137
Title: Great Stupa
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
View: North gateway, total of architraves, view north from inside
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
Plate W3.14 — Jia-2106
Title: Great Stupa
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
View: East gateway from outside, close detail: female nature goddess (yakshi)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 280 BCE-ca. 50 CE
Plate W4.1 — Jia-2700
Title: Prayer-Hall (Chaitya Hall)
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 1st BCE-early 2nd c.; late 5th c. add.
View: Nave, principal view with stupa, columns & vaulting
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 1st BCE-early 2nd c.; late 5th c. add.
Plate W4.11 — Kie-0085
Title: Ajanta: Cave 1
Creator(s):
Date: ca. second half of 5th c. CE
View: Bodhisattva Padmapani holding his lotus on back wall to left of shrine antechamber
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. second half of 5th c. CE
Plate W4.3 — Kia-0352
Title: Basilica of Santa Sabina. Interior
Creator(s):
Date: 422-432
View: General View of Nave toward the Apse
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 422-432
Plate W4.6 — Kie-0107
Title: Ajanta: Cave 17
Creator(s):
Date: ca. second half of 5th c. CE
View: General view of carved entrances to caves
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. second half of 5th c. CE
Plate W5.16 — Kma-0088
Title: Castillo
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 1050 CE
View: Total, view W
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 1050 CE
Plate W5.16 — Kma-0091
Title: Caracol
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 800-900
View: Overall view
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 800-900
Plate W5.17 — Kma-0123
Title: Platform of Venus
Creator(s):
Date: ca.987 - ca.1100
View: sculpture of the god "Chac mool" adjacent to Platform
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca.987 - ca.1100
Plate W5.2 — Jmc-0010
Title: Colossal Head, Olmec Culture
Creator(s):
Date: 900 - 400 BCE
View: Total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 900 - 400 BCE
Plate W5.28 — Lpa-0026
Title: Machu Picchu: Western Urban Sector
Creator(s):
Date: 15th c.
View: General view N with Eastern Urban sector and terraces dropping down the eastern slope
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 15th c.
Plate W6.10 — Kia-0711
Title: Dashavatara Vishnu Temple
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 475 CE
View: Total, view NE showing extent of platform (jagati)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 475 CE
Plate W6.12 — Kia-0712
Title: Dashavatara Vishnu Temple
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 475 CE
View: S side, central niche, relief panel showing Vishnu reclining on Ananta (also called Shesha), the serpent of infinity (Vishnu Anantashayana)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 475 CE
Plate W6.13 — Kia-0715
Title: Dashavatara Vishnu Temple
Creator(s):
Date: ca. 475 CE
View: Detail: W side, lintel above entrance to sanctum showing Vishnu enthroned on Ananta, the coiled serpent of infinity
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 475 CE
Plate W6.19 — Kca-0030
Title: Angkor: Khmer (Angkorean) capital and temple complexes
Creator(s):
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
View: Angkor Vat: Overall view
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
Plate W6.21 — Kca-0038
Title: Angkor: Khmer (Angkorean) capital and temple complexes
Creator(s):
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
View: Detail of "devatas," female divinities, carved on the outer wall of NW pavilion, Angkor Vat
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
Plate W6.23 — Kca-0042
Title: Angkor: Khmer (Angkorean) capital and temple complexes
Creator(s):
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
View: Angkor Thom: The Bayon. The great central mass and a section of the enclosure gallery
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
Plate W6.24 — Kca-0044
Title: Angkor: Khmer (Angkorean) capital and temple complexes
Creator(s):
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
View: Angkor Thom: The Bayon. view of one of the Face Towers with depictions of the Bodhisattva
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: 1080-1107 and 1181-ca. 1220
Plate W8.2 — Mif-4000
Title: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings. Mughal painting
Creator(s): Bichitr
Date: ca. 1615-1618
View:
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
Date: ca. 1615-1618

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