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The bluegreen landscape is from or in refernce to which dynasty?

Tang Dynasty

Define: Zun

A wine jug

Define: Ding

Food cauldron

Define: Bi

Jade disc

Define: Yangshao

Neolithic Chinese culture, 5000-3000 bce.

Define: Longshan

Neolithic Chinese culture, 3000-1900 bce.

Define: Liangzhu

Neolithic Chinese culture, 3300-2300 bce.

Define: Bronze

metal alloy of tin and copper

Define: Mawangdui

A complex of tombs from the western Han dynasty

Define: Qin Shi Huang

Emperor who founded the Qin dynasty and united China

Define: Seal

A red stamp present on many pieces of Chinese artworks to show approval of the owners and/or viewers

Define: Filial Piety

Ancestoral Worship

Define: Literati

Class of scholars and officials who practiced art at an amiture level

Define: Burial Substitutes

Things buried with people so that they could have them in the afterlife

Define: Arhat/Luohan

An enlighted person (not buddha)

Define: Mandorla

Almond-shaped halo

Define: Grottoes

Man-made caves where monks could reside and for people to pray

Define: Registers

A horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines

Define: Stele

A stone tablet, collum, or pillar with carvings and/or engravings

Define: Calligraphy

A form of artistic writing

Define: Feng-Shui

A philosophical idea about the lyout and energy of a space

Define: Chiang'an

The former capital of China

Define: Empress Wu Zetian

The only woman emperor who made Buddhism the state religion

Define: Colophon

An inscription mounted with a painting showing ownership and a commentary on the piece

Define: Provenance

History of ownership

Define: Pagoda

A building outside, usually with several roofs, usually ment to hold various religious paraphernalia-associated with Buddhism

Define: Repousse

A technique of hammer metal (usually of alread made reliefs) to detail and refine the work

Define: Earthenware

Clay fired at a relatively low tempurature, which is easier to make but more fragile than other pottery fired at high temps

Define: Glaze

A finish for ceramics

Define: Porcelain

White clay fired at very high tempuratures

Define: Stoneware

Clay that can be a variety of colors fired at a higher temp than Earthenware (making it more durrable) but still at lower temps than Porcelain

Define: Polychrome enamles

A finish for ceramics that can be a veriety of colors

*Infantry- Terrocotta Warriors*

Tomb of Emporer Qin Shi Huang Earthenware

Funerary Banner*

Western Han dynast 180 bce Mawangdui (Tomb 1)

ADMONITIONS OF THE COURT INSTRUCTRESS TO THE PALACE LADIES

Probably Coppied after court painter Gu Kaizhi Six dynasties 500-600 ce.

Mahasattva Jataka*

Mogao Grottoes (Cave 428) Dunhuang

The Thirteen Emperors*

Attributed to Yan Liben Tang dynasty

Bodhisattva Guide of Souls*

Depicting the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Guanyin (depicted as male) guiding a follower to the Western Pure Land From to Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang

*Night Revels of Han Xizai*

Credited to Gu Hingzhong (but he was most likely not the real artist) Southern Song dynasty (not Tang)

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams*

Fan Kuan Northern Song 1000 ce.

Early Spring

Guo Xi 1072 ce.

Peace Reigns Along The River

By Zhang Zeduan Northern Song dynasty the one with the boat about to crash, unusual for depicting everyday life

*A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains*

Wang Ximeng Form the Northern Song dynasty (1113 ce.), but is the blue-green refrencing the Tang dynasty

Wang XiZhi Watching Geese*

By Qian Xuan Yuan dynasty (mongol rule)

Sheep and Goat*

By Zhao Mengfu Yuan dynasty 1300-1305 ce.

Chicken Cup

Ming dynasty 1465-1487 ce. Cobalt blue outlines

*Portraits of Guanyin*

By Miss Qui Ming dynasty 1580 ce. Guanyin- boddhisattva of compasion (depicted as female)

*Inauguration Portraits of QianLong and His Empress*

Long Shining aka Guiseppe Castiglione (the Italian guy) Qing dynasty 1736 ce.

*Self-Portrait*

Ren Xiong Qing dynasty

Seated Buddha at Seokguram Cave

Unified Silla Period 751 ce.

Seated Willow-Branch Guanse'em Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compasion)*

Goryeo dynasty

Wine Pot with Bowl

Goryeo dynasty 1150-1200 ce. Inlaid technique

Bottle with Abstract Decoration

Joseon dynasty Buncheon ware

Panoramic View of The Diamond Mountains

By Jeong Seon Joseon dynasty 1734 ce.