Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

decorated earthenware bowls (see “Chinese Earthenwares and Stonewares,” page 196) even before the invention of the potter’s whee ...

the Bronze Age. The Shang kings ruled from a series of royal capitals in the Yellow River valley and vied for power and territor ...

The most dramatic find, a bronze statue (FIG. 7-4) more than eight feet tall, matches anything from Anyang in masterful casting ...

way to eastern Europe. By sometimes brutal methods, the First Emperor consolidated rule through a centralized bureaucracy and ad ...

7-6Army of the First Emperor of Qin in pits next to his burial mound, Lintong, China, Qin dynasty, ca. 210 bce.Painted terracott ...

Han Dynasty Soon after the First Emperor’s death, the people who had suffered under his reign revolted, assassinated his corrupt ...

188 Chapter 7 CHINA AND KOREA TO 1279 relief, the archer at the upper left is probably the hero Yi. He saves the Earth from scor ...

A lthough the basic unit of Chinese architecture, the rectangular hall with columns supporting a roof, was common in many ancien ...

light, characteristics that no doubt account for the choice of gilded bronze as the sculptor’s medium. In both style and iconogr ...

7-12Gu Kaizhi,Lady Feng and the Bear,detail ofAdmonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies,Period of Disunity, late fourt ...

MEETING OF TWO BUDDHASA gilded bronze statuette (FIG. 7-13) shows how the sculptors of the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) transf ...

Paradise of Amitabha(FIG. 7-15), on the wall of one of the Dunhuang caves, shows how the splendor of the Tang era and reli- giou ...

MOUNT WUTAIIn the Dunhuang mural, Amitabha appears against a backdrop of ornate buildings characteristic of the Tang era. The Ta ...

torians regard the early Tang dynasty as the golden age of Chinese fig- ure painting. In perfect accord with contemporary and la ...

The artists painted some figurines with colored slips and deco- rated others, such as the spirited, handsomely adorned neighing ...

technologically advanced society in the world in the early second millennium. FAN KUANFor many observers, the Song dynasty also ...

A short handscroll (FIG. 7-21) usually attributed to Huizong is more likely the work of court painters under his direction, but ...

in northern China. The example shown (FIG. 7-22) is a vase of the high-shouldered shape known as meiping.Chinese potters devel- ...

MA YUANThe most famous Song family of painters was the Ma family, which began working for the Song dynasty during the Northern S ...

U nder the Song emperors (960–1279), the new school ofChan Buddhism gradually gained importance, until it was second only to Neo ...