India has 22 official languages. But the real beauty isn’t just in hearing them spoken – it’s in seeing them rendered in script. The bustling streets of Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar were once lined with ...

The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual variation in the thickness of the lines in an attempt to write Chinese script that mimics the fluidity of Sanskrit. The 12th-century hand scroll is on ...

For millennia, adepts of calligraphy in China and connoisseurs worldwide have regarded it as the summit of the arts of Asia. "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy" at the Asian Art Museum ...

India has 22 official languages. But the real beauty isn’t just in hearing them spoken – it’s in seeing them rendered in script. The bustling streets of Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar were once lined with ...

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

a set of 4 : 3 Ori-hon containing various calligraphies and 1 ink on paper board. Calligraphy examples / ink on paper Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million ...

Road to Calligraphy Education reviews efforts throughout six decades to integrate calligraphy into the curriculum of higher education. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sensing a highly-likely lack of ...