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Scholar's impression of the original appearance of the gateway towers for t...
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in Gateways to Power and Paradise: Twin Towers in Early Chinese Architecture
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 4. Scholar's impression of the original appearance of the gateway towers for the Shibeidi palace. From Yang H., Yang Hongxun jianzhu kaoguxue lunwenji , 231.
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 12. Anonymous painter, The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion , China, thirteenth–fourteenth century. Fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on silk, 23.8 × 25.1 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 17.170.2. Artwork in public domain. Photograph
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A Flexible Concept of Finish: Rock-Cut Shrines in Premodern India
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and monoliths exist at some forty-five sites, created by Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains over a span of a thousand years. And to those accustomed to the modern concept of finish, half of this vast range of rock-cut monuments appears incomplete. No doubt explanations revolving around singular historical circum...
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Recent Publications on the Art and Archaeology of Kucha: A Review Article
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... the crucial link with the artistic traditions of Gandhara, India, and Persia in explicating the Chinese adaptation of a complex, foreign visual culture through the introduction of Buddhism. This essay reviews a number of significant publications on the art and archaeology of Kucha that have appeared...
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The Shield-Shaped Jade Pendant: A Singular Han-Dynasty Type and Its Later Revivals
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 157–190.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Susan N. Erickson Abstract Objects carved of jade often were placed in Han-dynasty burials of people of high rank. This article focuses on a small, shield-shaped (or “heart-shaped”) pendant frequently found near the deceased. The development of the type is examined through its appearance in tombs...
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Where the Blessed One Paced Mindfully: The Issue of Caṅkrama on Mathurā's Earliest Freestanding Images of the Buddha
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (2): 181–216.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with similar traits— kapardas , scalloped nimbi, akimbo arms, splayed feet, and so forth. Arguably, the very first appearances of Mathurā's “standing” Buddha-images might be closely related to the cult of caṅkrama , and thus should be factored into the historical transition from the previous aniconic period...
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Iconographic Volatility in the Fuxi-Nüwa Triads of the Han Dynasty
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... The iconographic schema of the flanking figures, Nüwa and Fuxi, appears mature and stable, with their identities consistently determined by their half-human, half-serpent, and gendered bodies as well as by the divine objects they hold—sun and moon, compass and T square, numinous mushrooms. The iconography...
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Painting, Peonies, and Ming Loyalism in Qing-Dynasty China, 1644–1795
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Kristen Chiem Abstract From the conquest of the Ming dynasty in 1644 by the Manchurians through the literary inquisitions of the eighteenth century, seemingly innocuous paintings of peony flowers kept alive a discourse of Ming loyalism among Chinese artists and poets. While the peony's appearance...
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The Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 81–105.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Michelle C. Wang Abstract The Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī is an enigmatic form of the bodhisattva that appeared primarily in the Mogao cave shrines in northwestern China. There, the deity was nearly always paired with the Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara on opposite walls or on opposite sides of a doorway...
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Envisioning Paradise: The Terrestrial Utopia of Maitreya Buddha in the Medieval Murals at Dunhuang
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 171–190.
Published: 01 October 2021
... appearing across the murals that allow us to understand how adherents imagined life in an earthly paradise. Most scenes in the murals accentuate the magnificence of life in Maitreya's terrestrial Buddhaland, characterized by manageable yet rewarding labor and a long life that never ends suddenly, all...
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Painting Bronze in Early China: Uncovering Polychromy in China's Classical Sculptural Tradition
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 1–53.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Allison R. Miller Abstract Scholars of Greek and Roman art have long recognized that many sculptures that today appear unpainted were originally covered in bright, polychrome paint. In contrast, the hallowed works of China's classical antiquity, the bronzes, are generally believed to have been...
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The Curious Case of the Octagonal Temple: An Architectural Analysis and Revised History of the Temples of Muṇḍeśvarī Hill
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 173–197.
Published: 01 October 2020
... appearance during the reconstructive work they undertook at the start of the twentieth century. The vēdībandha runs contrary to Nāgara norms in several ways. Its most unlikely feature is the way it starts and stops around the base of the temple, replaced at intervals with flat portions of wall 48...
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A Word for Shen Yuan
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 April 2021
... with the same brocade as Qiu Ying's version, highlight Shen Yuan's seminal role, despite his name not appearing in the finished painting. Works Cited Chen Yunru . “ Revisiting the Meaning behind Qingming shanghe tu : Reflections on Poetry, Politics, and Art under Emperor Huizong ”( in Chinese ) Taida...
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The New Emperor's Clothes: Indigo and Allusion in Two Hongzhi Year One Paintings
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2023
... contrast to the kaleidoscopic appearance of the clothing banned by Hongzhi. The collaboration between Shen Zhou and Qian Renfu makes the paintings prominent examples of the layered nuance achieved in traditional Chinese painting through the interplay of color and poetry. 108. Zhao, Beijing wenwu...
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Buddhism, Heaven, and the Yellow Springs: A Reevaluation of Hunping Jars
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 79–106.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Sumeru with Buddhist arhats to replace the immortals on Mount Kunlun. Most of the Buddha-like images that appear on hunping depict those arhats. [email protected] © 2023 Asia Society 2023 hunping binary souls axis mundi Mount Kunlun geyi Mount Sumeru arhats Figure 1...
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Reuse and Iconoclasm in the Medieval Deccan: A City Gate and a Sufi Shrine at Daulatabad
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (2): 197–231.
Published: 01 October 2024
... shrine. I argue that reuse and iconoclasm at the city gate served a political purpose, whereas that at the Sufi shrine had a religious significance. I also propose a way to collectively examine instances of reuse and iconoclasm in the built environment. While the logic of these two processes appears...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (2): 323.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Copyright © Asia Society 2016 Errata
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the Susan Bush article ‘‘Mi Youren’s and Sima Huai’s in the Michelle Wang article ‘‘The Thousand-armed...
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About Looking at Buddha Images in Eastern India
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 63–82.
Published: 01 April 2001
... sites. On the other hand, studies focused
on iconography at particular sites—and there are still very
few of these—tend to look only at a single site.4 The major-
ity of iconographic studies concentrate on the earliest exam-
ple of an image form, ignoring or scanting the appearance...
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Chaekgeori: Multi-Dimensional Messages in Late Joseon Korea
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 April 2014
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the flourishing consumer culture of late Ming and Qing chaekgeori painting, as more and more Qing-period
China and Edo Japan, nonetheless, and perhaps inevita- luxury consumer objects appeared in them. This process
bly, Korea’s traditional, austere Confucian culture be- was facilitated and accelerated partly...
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Regarding “Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts”
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Abe asked the group trappings rendered the bodhisattva exposed and, yet,
to consider how the collection of sixth-century Chinese provided her with the opportunity to examine the sculp-
Buddhist sculpture was part of a larger modernist proj- ture’s appearance in a manner that would typically be
ect...
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