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...Kathleen Ryor Copyright © Asia Society 2004 Regulating the Qi and the Xin: Xu Wei (1521-1593) and his Military Patrons* KATHLEEN RYOR CARLETON COLLEGE Many historians have viewed sixteenth-century China research has shown, hereditary military officials...

...-stances satisfactorily explain some of this incomplete work. This article, however, addresses the significant number of unfinished works that seem unexplained by specific historical circumstances, and proposes that the concept of “finish” was flexible. The patron's prime aim was to create a monument...

...) of the Dunhuang shrines for the patrons and designers are also raised. For the patrons and designers, the shrines surely provided opportunities for acts of merit-making and expressions of gratitude for good fortune. For viewers and later visitors, were the shrines coded expressions of discursive Buddhist “meaning...

...Einor K. Cervone Abstract A floating gallery, a drifting studio where sprawling waterscapes set off artwork on display and inspire original creation—the painting-and-calligraphy boat ( shuhua chuan) may sound like a postmodern experimental installation. For its Ming patrons, however, it was nothing...

...Kumja Paik Kim Abstract The eighteenth-century Korean painter Kim Hong-do 金弘道 (1745–ca. 1806) still dazzles today's viewers with his paintings of genre scenes and Daoist immortals, just as he astonished his contemporaries with his talent and versatility. Although he had numerous patrons, none had...

... modes and subject types are combined in the painting set analyzed by Gyatso supporting her assessment of the innovation of the artists selected by the patron, Desi Sangyé Gyatso (1653–1705). Gyatso concedes that Buddhist imagery is plentiful among the seventy-seven plates—indeed, in looking at each...

...Kate A. Lingley Copyright © Asia Society 2005 The Multivalent Donor: ZhangYuanfei at Shuiyu Si' KATE A. LINGLEY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA he principal difficulty in studying individual patrons of possible approach, in this case relying on the close study of Buddhist...

... did not efface her individual identity. In its archi- this monument: is there any point in knowing that this tectural details her temple differs from temples sponsored building's patron was a woman?' Readers in the twenty- by other Irukkuvels in much the same degree that those first century...

... status of the patron, Ibrahim Rawda boasts a profusion of carved stonework, Fig. 1. Ibrahim Rawda complex. 1626-1633. Bidiapar. Photograph by author...

.... as Persian, flirted with indigenous practices like vegeta- This final section turns to the growing literature in South rianism, sponsored the construction of Hindu temples, Asian art history on cultural translation, and considers and patronized Indian rı¯ti (a tradition of court) poetry translation...

...- ˙ meaningfully adapted it. The Scindia chatrı¯s present the polis in the former Rajput state of Bikaner in present- dynasty as politically legitimate through a recognizably day Rajasthan. These examples are typical of the Rajput royal medium, but one that the Scindia patrons trans- cenotaphs, although...

... University hroughout Korea’s Choso˘n period (1392–1910), artist’s image as free and romantic, modest and cultured, Tcourt painters were the major producers of pictures an image constructed from the somewhat conventional for both the court and private patrons.1 As government compliments of his...

... shes, depictions), as more recent or even older pre-incarnations 1663–1737), based on the eighteenth-century Narthang of the teachers were added to the group over the years, Monastery (snar thang dgon pa) xylograph-based series whether this was the intention of the original patron of depictions...

... to the role of individual or institutional patrons in determining the nature of the artwork. Patronage studies frequently revealed fascinating new insights into the etiology of spe...

... of Ghurid-patronized mosques, the Kaman building, in- cluding both columns and ceilings, was also constructed of older architectural components (Fig. 17A...

... participated in the production of knowledge about India; they are indelibly linked with the processes of colonialism and the dissemination of orientalist stereotypes. 20 Further, the term's nomenclature privileges the position of the Company-employed patron as visionary, benefactor, explorer, and collector...

... farther south, Indira Viswanathan Peterson has considered ways that multiple and mixed styles of painting, sculpture, and architecture at Tanjore under King Serfoji II (r. 1798–1832) answered diverse political allegiances and tastes. 19 Tanjore patrons and artists were generally eager to explore...

...-Dı¯n to 1320 ce from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I hope and names its patron, a local governor for the Khaljı¯ to demonstrate that bringing the fourteenth-century sultanate of Delhi, which held power from 1290 to Bija¯puri mosques out of the margins and into the center 1320...

... confounding the influenced the aesthetic imagination of the elites. These borrowed norms of the landscape is the crescent formed British artists were emulated by Indian artists who, in by the rolled-up drape, which counters the arc of her tur- working for European or local aristocratic patrons, adopt...