Two topics — music and love-making, and the music lesson — are preferred themes in genre painting; they are no less frequent in East Asia, often in combination with drinking and eating, on drinking cups and dishes and eating bowls made of silver or ceramic, in miniature painting, on silk screens etc. But it was only during the time of humanism, with architecture taking the lead, that these parallels began to be effectively explored. He left his native city of Rhegium in southern Italy to go to Samos at the invitation of its ruler Polycrates. The specific nature of dance has a direct impact on its visualization. At Borobudur, the reliefs at the lower level tell stories taking place in the sinful world and represent music scenes involving the local Javanese population; the reliefs at the higher level represent music in a paradise modelled after South Asian court fashion.
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