Art History Test 4

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Seal showing Yogi Mohenjo-Daro, 2300-1750 BCE Indus Valley

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Mohenjo-Daro Great Bath 2300-1750 BCE Indus Valley

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Yakshi figure c. 200 BCE Pre-Buddhism

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Great Stupa, Sanchi, 3rd century BCE-1st century BCE Buddhism

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Buddha Seated on lion throne, Mathura, 1st century Buddhism

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Shiva Nataraja, 11-12th century, bronze Hinduism

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Khajuraho Temple Complex and sculpture of couples 11th century Hinduism

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Taj Mahal, compl 1653 Mughal India

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Gu wine vessel, bronze Shang Dynasty

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Terra cotta soldiers, tomb of first emperor, 210 BCE Qin dynasty

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Horse poised on swallow, bronze Han Dynasty

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Colossal Buddha, Yungang Cave, Northern Wei Dynasty

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Bodhisattava Guanyin, Song Dynasty

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Fan Kuan, Travelling in Streams and Mountains, 950-1050 Song Dynasty

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Bottle with copper rim, Ru Ware, Song Dynasty

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Great Wall, begun in Xin and enlarged in Ming Dynasty

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Fish Jar porcelain Ming Dynasty

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Bodhisattva seated in meditation, gilt bronze early 7th century CE, Silla

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Stone pagoda, 8th century, Unified Silla

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Ewer, with inlaid chrysanthemum flowers and cranes Goryeo

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Horyuji compound, pagoda, 7th century, Nara

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Womb World Mandala, 859-880, Heian

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Catching Catfish with a Gourd, early 15th century, Muromachi

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Himeji Castle, late 16th century, Momoyama

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Hokusai, View on Fine and Breezy Day, wood block print, 1822-32, Edo

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Shazia sikander, SpiNN, 2003, digital animation

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Anish Kapoor, cloud gate, chicago, 2003, public sculpture of stainless steel plates

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Xu Bing, Book from the sky, 1987-1991, installation of woodblock books, text, caligraphy

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Ai Wei Wei, Sunflower seeds, 2010, installaion

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Nam Jun Paik, Electronic Highway

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Do-Ho Suh, Some/One, 2003, 3,00 dogtags

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Yayoi Kusama, Transmigration, 2011, installation

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Mariko Mori, Play with me, 1994, performance art

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Takashi, Murakami, DOB DOB, 1996

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Takashi Murakami, Wink, 2001

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Siddhartha Gautama

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Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.

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axis mundi

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line through the earth's center around which the universe revolves

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Shiva

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The Destroyer, the third member of the Trimurti

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Ganesha

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The Hindu god of wisdom

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lingam shrine

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a symbol of divine generative energy, especially a phallus or phallic object as a symbol of Shiva.

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Mughal Empire

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was a Persianate empire extending over large parts of the Indian subcontinent and ruled by a dynasty of Mongol and Chagatai-Turkic origin.

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Daoism

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a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.

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Pure Land Buddhism

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a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Landsect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is tobring all beings into it.

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scholar-official!

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were civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty.

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celadon

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a gray-green glaze used on pottery, especially that from China.

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Cuonfucius

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Chinese philosopher and teacher.

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pagoda!

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a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.

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Dogu

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are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period

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Wabi Sabi

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represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

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Shinto

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the indigenous religion of Japan consisting chiefly in the cultic devotion to deities of natural forces and veneration of the Emperor as a descendant of the sun goddess

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Zen Buddhism

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a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition.

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Esoteric Buddhism

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is one of the mainstream major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia,

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onna-e

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indicates subject matter in painting felt to be especially of interest to women, such as that illustrating romantic poetry orprose; this style is exemplified by tsukuri-e paintings, in which built-up colordominates.