This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.
Even the famous painter Raphael, whose studio was close to where the animal lived, immortalized, in at least four sketches, the white elephant that amazed Rome. The monk Friar Giovanni da Verona ...
Professional artists painted 30 large sculptures, with more than 40 baby elephant models decorated by the local community More than 70 elephant sculptures that were on show in parks, streets and ...