One point must be to assert conquest by Islam 它体现了伊斯兰教的征服地位 and to show how the Hindu idols have at least been neutralised. 同时展现出印度偶像是如何被中和掉的 But even when they have been defaced, 但即使他...
When Muslim armies from Afghanistan 来自阿富汗的穆斯林军队 invaded India in the 12th century, 在十二世纪入侵印度的时候 they were horrified by what they found. 被他们的发现吓坏了 This was the original home of the Hindu...
Lots of different kinds of iconoclasm have gone on here. 这里发生过多次不同形式的圣像破坏活动 The original stained-glass windows are one obvious casualty. 原先的彩色玻璃窗就遭受了明显的破坏 But they've also gone for...
Through the 16th and 17th centuries, 整个十六世纪与十七世纪 Protestants and Catholics fought over this land 新教徒与天主教徒一直在争夺这片土地 in a conflict whose visual scars 斗争中留下的可见伤疤 can be found in...
If you look at this book, 读这本书 you can see in some ways the Jewish artist 你能看到犹太艺术家 really celebrating the mixed traditions of medieval Spain. 颂扬了中世纪西班牙融合的信仰 Some of it really clearly 这其中的一...
In the face of all the debates and prohibitions on images, 面对各种关于图像的争论和封禁 Islamic calligraphy evolved to 伊斯兰书法逐渐演化 redefine what an image of God could be. 重新定义了神的形象 No single religion ha...
And it was a message that basically says 简单来说这是在告诉世人 that you should take back there into the outside world 你应该回到那外面的世界 the state of purity that you've reached through prayer. 带着通过祈祷所达到的纯...
It takes a complete life 一生的不断练习 to come to that maturity to do a good calligraphy. 才能达到写出一幅卓绝作品所需的熟练度 So, you see all his life in a single stroke. 一撇一捺都是他毕生修养的体现 With exqu...
Muhammad is furious, he won't even go into the house 穆罕默德勃然大怒 他甚至不愿走进房子 because it's the creator God 因为创造生物的 who's supposed to create living creatures, 应该是创世主真主 not some tapestry artist....
In fact, the only man-made image 事实上 唯一的人造图像 is a wonderful piece of calligraphy 是一件杰出的书法作品 which is a quote from the Koran. 语句出自《古兰经》 It's as if what we're expected to do when we come in here...
