Chapter 7 - Asian Art

Gu Kaizhi, Admonitions of the Court Inductress to the Palace Ladies, 500-600 CE, handscroll, ink and color on silk 

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi, Song Dynasty, 400-500 CE, rubbing of stamped bricks

Filial Grandson Yuan Gu, Northern Wei Dynasty, 525 CE, engraved limestone

Western Pure Land, Northern Qi Dynasty, 550-577 CE, limestone

Yan Liben, the Thirteen Emperors, Tang Dynasty, handscroll, ink and color on silk

Han Gan, Night-Shining White, Tang Dynasty, 700-800 CE, handscroll, ink on paper

Wanchuan Villa, 1617 (rubbing), rubbing, ink on paper

Grey Goose Pagoda, Tang Dynasty, 652 CE, masonry 

Main Hall, Tang Dynasty, 782 CE, Wood, masonry, plaster, ceramic tiles

Ewer, Tang Dynasty, 675-750 CE, earthenware with sancai glaze

handscroll

horizontally organized composition on paper or silk, designed to be gradually unrolled and viewed right to left

hanging scroll / album leaf

vertically oriented composition designed to be hung from a wall / small painting included as leaf in album of paintings

seal

object carved with an insignia or name at one end so it can be dipped in ink or wax and pressed onto a surface, artist or collector mark stamped onto painting

colophon

inscription mounted after painting

blue-green landscape

Chinsese landscape painting characterized by use of blue and green mineral pigments from malachite and azurite

space-cell

cell shaped enclosure containing pictorial elements apparently set on different plane of recession from surrounding elements

mural / stele

wall painting / upright stone slab carved with inscriptions or images, often commemorative or a grave marker

burial substitute

symbolic object buried in tomb intended to serve tomb’s occupant

bodhisattvas / arhat / apsara

enlightened being in Buddhism, sometimes original disciple of historic Buddha that remains in world until Buddha returns / Someone who has achieved Nirvana / female celestial goddess 

sutra / mandorla

sacred buddhist scriptures / almond-shaped halo that typically extends around body and head

hieratic scale

practice of depicting elements as large or small depending on their relative importance

genre

subject category in art

provenance

pagoda

East Asian form of the stupa

post-and-beam / bracket