Chinese Art Quiz 2

Animals of the Four Directions

The Library Cave

Queen Mother of the West

Sage of Chinese Calligraphy

The Silk Road

The Three Perfections

stone relief carving showing Jing Ke attempting to assassinate the First Emperor of Qin

Wu Liang Shrine, Shangdon; Eastern Han dynasty, 2nd century CE

west-wall stone relief carving

Wu Liang Shrine, Shangdong Province; Eastern Han dynasty, 2nd century CE

narrative of Bhudda’s life

Yungang Cave 6, Datong, Shanxi; Northern Wei dynasty, 5th century CE

entrance to Cave 6, with Mount Sumeru above the doorway

Yungang caves, Shanxi Province; Northern Wei dynasty, late 5th century CE

Colossal Bhudda

Yungang Cave 20, Datong, Shanxi; Northern Wei dynasty, ca. 5th century CE

Cave 428, Mogao Caves

Dunhuang, Gansu, China; Northern Zhou dynasty, mid-late 6th C.

Mogao Cave 285

Dunhuang, Gansu, China; Western Wei dynasty; second quarter of 6th century

Procession of the Empress, on the entrance wall of the Central Binyang Cave

Longmen, Henan Province; Northern Wei dynasty; 6th c.

Lanting Orchid Pavilion Gathering

Wang Xizhi; Jin dynasty; 353 CE.

final scene from the Admonitions of the Court Instructress

Gu Kaizhi (ca. 344-406); ca. 4th CE.; Jin dynasty; hand scroll; ink and colors on silk

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