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...Wei-Cheng Lin Copyright © Asia Society 2011 Underground Wooden Architecture in Brick: A Changed Perspective from Life to Death in 10th- through 13th-Century Northern China wei-cheng lin University of North...

... such as brick or stone walls and foun- such as disused moats, canals, tanks, and pits collect dations, streets, and solid floors are buried beneath soil silt over the years, obscuring their surface forms. If and and vegetation after the original edifices have collapsed, 6 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART...

... in bringing the prin- at thirteen in 550. The princess was buried in a tomb cess to North China in 542 ce as a diplomatic bride with a single 5.23 Â 5.58 meter brick chamber and a for his son, a move that sealed an alliance between the short, level corridor connecting the chamber to a long, Eastern Wei...

... with the Khitan mentioned above, where excavation has occurred We thus turn to a preliminary survey of the 1950s to in more recent decades, brick and wooden objects, begin this investigation. including pieces of Buddhist sculpture, were found by Kherlen-Bars is the largest of three...

...Figure 18. Baisha Tomb 1, west wall of front chamber, Baisha, Henan, China, Song dynasty, 1099. Polychromed brick. From Su, Baisha Song mu , pl. 22 . ...

... Emblems and Their Reemergence in the Fourteenth-Century Deccan .” Muqarnas 11 ( 1994 ): 65 – 78 . Shyam, Radhey . The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1966 . Sohoni, Ashutosh . “ Brick and Plaster Temples in the Maratha Heartland .” South Asian Studies 21...

... does represent a Śaivācārya on the pedestal; it remains in the home-shrine of Shankar Das at Betna ( Figure 27 ), two or three kilometers south of Bairhatta village. Previously it was in the place where Saraswati apparently saw it, a dilapidated brick temple known as Kālībāḍī about 150 meters from...

... and reconstruction by the ASI at the beginning of the twentieth century. A staircase inscribed with pilgrim records that date back to the sixth century meanders up the eastern side of the Muṇḍeśvarī hill, 2 passing by the remains of brick temples, sculptures, and relief carvings and arriving at a clearing...

... Rajasthan’s temples, chhatris (stone or brick pavilions), and other buildings, not for their stylistic or iconographic characteristics, but rather for all the his...

..., and wood; h. 60 cm, w. 40 cm, l. 5 cm. Collection of the artist. (Fig. 5). In early-sixties Korea the issue of the viewer’s that recalls the form, if not function, of a path or street relationship to the artwork was especially urgent given (Fig. 6). The arrangement of bricks and concrete compli...

... of early Chinese painting. from discussions of early Chinese painting. Professor Cahill, If we begin to doubt the premises of "Mastering in 196o, writes of the Ross Bricks in the Boston Museum Representation" and to question the existence of a clear, of Fine Arts: "The figures painted on a clay slab...

... in other mortuary contexts. Two armored officers, each with hands joined and pressing a sword on the ground between his feet ( Figure 13a ), are reminiscent of figures painted at the gate of a late-fifth- or early-sixth-century brick tomb at Xuezhuang 學莊 in present-day Dengzhou 鄧州, about 100 miles south...

... which reads: (A) In the next western bound exists an ordination platform. Its size on all four sides measures about 1 zhang in the [Tang] long chi . On the leveled ground, the surrounding brick walls are piled up. Its height amounts to about 2 chi . Within the walls lies the sitting base, which...

... the South Plaza was complete but visible only as a low platform surrounded by scaffolding across a field from Mirpur road. 88 No work had begun on the National Assembly edifice. 89 The 2006 Deputy Speaker of the House describes playing in the construction as a child, calling it “a sea of brick.” 90...

...- on the masses to rebel against the Party and its organi- cades with stones, bricks, spears made from pipes, zations. When ‘‘Bombard the Headquarters’’ was pub- home-made grenades and guns. At least 5 workers lished later in August, it inspired a new wave of demon- were killed, about 731 were seriously wounded...

... Temple. Kiracl u, Rajasthan. Entrance into sar tum. the qibla with "Hindu influence" is also questionable, since ments, found in the brick revetments and facades of east- these elements were not necessarily traceable to a specifi- ern Iranian and Afghani buildings, is here maintained cally Hindu...

..., and accompanying triśūla puruṣa s clearly evince a Śaiva affiliation) ( Figure 7 ). 28 The foundation of a brick structure, presumably a temple, to the west of the columns was built upon a terraced mound approximately one-and-a-half meters above the surrounding land. 29 Within the remains of the brick...