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Buddhist Art

Avalokiteshvra: The Bodhisattva 1200


Gilt Bronze


Tantric Buddhism


Wheel symbolizes Dharma (Buddhas teaching)

Jain Art

Kalpa Sutra: Birth of Mahavira 1375-1400


Gouache on paper, 24 Pathfinders

Hindu Art

Outer Gopura of the MInakshi-Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai, South India 1300-1700

Islamic Art

Islamic Art

Taj Mahal, Agra, North India. Mughal period, reign of Shah Jahan 1631-1648

Nepal

Nepal

Maya, Mother of Buddha Holding a Tree Branch. 18th century. Gilt Bronze with inlaid precious stones.

Shwe-dagon Stupa located in Burma 15th century

Thailand 

Thailand

Seated Sukhoai Bronze Buddha mid 13th to late 14th century.

Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368)

Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368)

Zhao Mengfu: Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains 1296. Handscroll, ink and color on paper


Literati painting


connect poetry to paintings

Ming Dynasty 

Ming Dynasty

Ni Zan: The Rongxi Studio 1372


Literati Painting

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Ying Hong: Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks. Late 15th to early 16th century.


Hanging Scroll, ink and color on silk

Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

Porcelain Flask, 1426-35


with decoration in blue underglaze


dragon considered divine, represents power and authority

Ming Dynasty 

Ming Dynasty

The Forbidden City (1368-1644)


Imperial Palace

Ming Dynasty

Garden of the Cessation of Official Life


Suzhou, Jiangsu early 16th century

Ming Dynasty

Shen Zhou: Poet on a Mountain Top


Leaf from an album of landscapes; painting mounted as part of hand scroll


ink and color paper

yuan (1280-1368)


ming (1368-1644)


qing (1644-1911)

Six principles



qi-spirit harmony


brushwork as the bone of a picture


fidelity to the object in portraying forms


conformity in applying colors


proper planning in placing of elements


copying; ancient models should be perpetuated

literati- paintings by those of very high knowledge, although painting is not their profession

amateur painters, smartest of the smart

Ming dynasty

Dong Qichang: The Qingbian Mountains 1617


"southern school"

Qing

Wang Hui: A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines 1693


hanging scroll on paper


Set new standards for Chinese art

Qing

Shitao: Landscape, leaf from an album of landscapes


1700 ink and color paper

Japanese


Muromachi


(1336-1573)

Japanese


Momoyama

(1573-1615)

Japanese


Edo

(1615-1868)

muromachi period

muromachi period

Sesshu: Winter lanscape 1470


hanging scroll ink on paper


zen buddhism


Muromachi Period

Muromachi Period

Rock Garden, Ryoanji Kyoto 1480


zen dry garden


momoyama period

momoyama period

Himeji Castle


Hyogo near Osaka 1601-09


White Heron Castle

momoyama period

momoyama period

Eitoku: Pine tree and birds and Plum tree and birds, 2 sets of Fusuma 1563

momoyama period 

momoyama period

Rikyu: Taian Tearoom 1582


tea ceremony intimate, rustic


zen

Momoyama Period

Momoyama Period

Koetsu: tea bowl called Mount Fuji 1600


Raku ware

Edo period

Edo period

Nagasawa Rosetsu: black bull and a puppy


white elephant


lates 1800's


left of a pair of six panel byobu, ink and gold wash on paper

Edo Period 

Edo Period

Katsushika Hokusai: The Great wave, From Thirty Six views of Mt. Fuji 1831


Polychrome woodblock print on paper

Aztec empire

Aztec empire

The goddess of coatilcue 1500

Aztec Empire 

Aztec Empire

Calendar Stone 1500

Inca Empire

Inca Empire

machu picchu Peru 1450-1530

Eastern woodlands of NA

Eastern woodlands of NA

Wampum Belt (traditionally called william penns treaty with the delaware) Shell beads 1680's

Great plains of NA

Great plains of NA

Photo of women raising tipi 1900

Great Plains of NA

Great Plains of NA

Hide painting with a battle scene 1797-1800


tanned buffalo hide

Northwest coast of NA Tlingit 

Northwest coast of NA Tlingit

Grizzly bear house partition screen 1840

Northwest Coast of NA Tlingit 

Northwest Coast of NA Tlingit

Chilkat Blanket 1928

Southwest of NA: Navajo

Southwest of NA: Navajo

Whirling log ceremony

southwest of north america: Navajo

southwest of north america: Navajo

Julia Jumbo: Two Grey Hills tapestry weaving 2003

edo period

edo period

Tawaraya Sotatsu: Waves at Matsushima


Pair of six panel bybobu, ink colors and gold leaf paper 1615