Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

A 13th-century ceramic bowl from Iran. The Islamic world excelled in the so-called decorative arts of pottery, metalwork, glass, and stonecutting. It rarely ventured into the large-scale wall paintings that were being perfected in Italy around this same time.



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    Ceramic bowl, Persia, XIII century.
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