Second Review.

Our second test is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 10. The test will be 50 minutes long and will be an essay exam with ten slides: some shown singly, some shown in pairs. I will ask you to identify every slide I show, with four pieces of information, as follows:

1. site (such as Chang'an) OR artist (if his or her name is known), depending on which one applies to the object
2. title OR function (in the case of pagodas, pillows, etc.)
3. date (period or dynasty or calendar date within 100 years-extra credit if you get the exact year or range of years!)
4. medium

You should memorize these four facts for every object on these pages (unless it is not given, in which case you don't need to worry about it). The test will include only the objects listed below.

I will also be asking you to write short paragraphs about the significance of the objects pictured in the slides. The identifications are the WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE; your essays should address WHY-why were these objects made; why are they important? Your answers here will count for more points than the identifications, although if you are completely unable to identify an object I suspect your discussion of it will not be as good as it could be. I may ask you to write about a single object or to compare two objects. To prepare for this, I suggest that you consider subject matter, form, function and ornament for each of the objects listed on these pages. In addition, try to figure out how each of these objects relates to an important concept discussed in class (ancestor worship, for example). I also suggest that you try to compare similar objects or motifs from different periods or regions to each other.

If you have an Ethernet connection to the campus network, you can access these images at the Visual Resources Collection website. Click on "Image Reviews," then click on the link for the review for our class, Art 220. (Note: if information on a particular object at the VRC online site is different from what I've given you, use my information.) If you do not have an Ethernet connection to the campus network, let me know and I can make these images available to you in another way.

Sui and Tang dynasties.

Plan of Chang'an, ca. 700-800 C.E., Tang dynasty. Shaanxi province.

Tang Officials and Foreign Emissary, mural, Qianling, 706-711 C.E. Tomb of Prince Zhanghuai, Qianling, Shaanxi province.

Court Ladies, mural, 70.8 x 79.2 in., Tang dynasty, 706 C.E. Tomb of Princess Yongtai, Qianling, Shaanxi province.

Great Goose Pagoda, masonry, 210 ft. x 82 ft. x 82 ft., Tang dynasty, 652 C.E. Ci'en Monastery, Chang'an, Shaanxi province.

Main Hall, wood, masonry, plaster and ceramic tiles, Tang dynasty, ca. 782 C.E. Nanchan Temple, Mt. Wutai (Wutaishan), Shanxi province.

Set of reliquary caskets, silver and gold, 2.8 to 9.3 in. h., Tang dynasty, 871 C.E. Famen Temple, Fufeng, Shaanxi province.

Colossal Vairocana and Attendants, limestone, 44 ft. h., Tang dynasty, completed 675 C.E. Fengxian Temple, Cave 19, Longmen, Henan province .

The Tang-Song transition.

Sixteen Visualizations of Queen Vaidehi, mural, Tang dynasty, 800-900 C.E. Cave 45, Mogao chapels, Dunhuang, Gansu province.

Pillow, earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze, 4.4 in. l., Tang dynasty, ca. 700-725 C.E.

HUAISU, Autobiographical Essay, handscroll, ink on paper, 11 x 297 in. Tang dynasty, 777 C.E. Detail.

Attributed to YAN Liben, Scroll of the Emperors, handscroll, ink and color on silk, 20.1 x 216 in. Copy (ca. 1000-1100) of original dated to 600-700 C.E. Detail.

Attributed to ZHOU Fang, Court Ladies Wearing Flowers in Their Hair (Flower Morning), handscroll (formerly a three-paneled screen), ink and color on silk, 18 x 69 in. Copy (ca. 900-1000) of original dating to Tang dynasty, ca. 800 C.E. Two halves of composition.

UNKNOWN, Water Mill, handscroll, ink and color on silk, 20.5 x 47 in., Five Dynasties or Northern Song dynasty, 900-1100 C.E.

LI Song (fl. 1190-1230), Knick-knack Peddler, fan, ink and color on silk, 10.1 x 10.9 in., Southern Song dynasty, 1210.

ZHANG Zeduan (fl. ca. 1100), Peace Reigns over the River (Qingming shanghe tu), handscroll, ink and color on silk, 9.8 in. x 17 ft. 4 in., Northern Song dynasty, ca. 1100. Two details.

Song dynasty art, part 2.

Moni (Pearl) Hall, wood and ceramic tile, Northern Song dynasty, 1052. Longxing Temple, Zhending, Hebei province.

Tea bowl, Jian ware, stoneware with oil-spot glaze, 2.6 in. h. x 4.8 in. diam., Song dynasty, 1100-1300. Kiln site in Fujian province.

Long-necked vase, Guan ware, stoneware with soft blue crackled glaze, 7.1 in. h., Southern Song dynasty, 1200-1300. Kiln site near Hangzhou.

Pillow in the shape of a recumbent child, Ding ware, porcellaneous stoneware with white glaze over carved and incised decoration, 7.4 in. h., Northern Song dynasty. Kiln site at Dingzhou, Hebei province.

Attributed to JING Hao (ca. 870-80-ca. 935-40), Travelers in Snow-Covered Mountains, hanging scroll, ink, white pigment and color on silk, 54.4 x 30 in., Five Dynasties.

FAN Kuan (ca. 960-1030), Travelers among Mountains and Streams, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 6 ft. 7.3 in. x 3 ft. 4.3 in., Northern Song dynasty, ca. 1000.

GUO Xi (ca. 1020-ca. 1090), Early Spring, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 62.3 x 42.6 in., Northern Song dynasty, 1072.

MA Yuan (fl. before 1189-after 1225), On a Mountain Path in Spring, album leaf, ink and color on silk, 10.8 x 17 in., Southern Song dynasty, ca. 1194-1224.

MA Lin, "Portrait of Fuxi," Confucian Sages and Worthies, series of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk, Southern Song dynasty, ca. 1230.

HUIZONG, Cranes above Kaifeng, album leaf now mounted as handscroll, ink and color on silk, 20.1 x 54.4 in., Northern Song dynasty, ca. 1112.

Song dynasty art, part 3.

Copy after GU Hongzhong (fl. ca. 961-75), Night Revels of Han Xizai, handscroll, ink and color on silk, 11.3 in. x 11 ft. 1 in., Southern Song dynasty, ca. 1125-1200. (Original dates to ca. 960.) Detail.

MA Yuan (fl. before 1189-after 1225), with calligraphy by Empress YANG, Apricot Blossoms Leaning Against Clouds, fan mounted as an album leaf, 10 x 10.8 in., Southern Song dynasty, ca. 1200.

XIA Gui (fl. ca. 1180-1224), with calligraphy by Empress YANG, Twelve Views of Landscape, handscroll, ink on silk, 8.3 in. x 7.7 ft., Southern Song dynasty, ca. 1210. Detail.

QIAO Zhongchang, Su Shi's Second Poem on the Red Cliff, handscroll, ink on paper, 11.6 in. x 18 ft. 8 in., Northern Song dynasty, 1123. Detail.

Guanyin, wood and pigment, 7 ft. 9 in. h. Southern Song dynasty, 1100-1300.

ZHOU Jichang and LIN Tinggui, Five Hundred Luohans, set of one hundred hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk, 43.9 x 20.9 in. Southern Song dynasty, 1178-1188. Ningbo.
Detail: ZHOU Jichang, Luohan Adopting Guise of Eleven-Headed Guanyin.

Knee-Chopping Hell, stone, Southern Song dynasty, 1179-1249. Dazu grottoes, Baodingshan.
Detail: Effects of Drunkenness.

MUQI, Guanyin, Crane, and Mother Gibbon and Baby, set of three hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk, 70 in. h., Southern Song dynasty.

Yuan and Ming dynasties, part 1.

Attributed to LIU Guandao (fl. ca. 1275-1300), Khubilai Khan Hunting, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 6 ft. x 41 in. Yuan dynasty, 1280.

REN Renfa (1255-1328), Lean and Fat Horses, handscroll, ink and color on silk, 11.4 x 56.6 in., Yuan dynasty.

ZHAO Mengfu (1254-1322), The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu, handscroll, ink and color on silk, 10.8 x 46 in., Yuan dynasty, ca. 1287.

Portrait of the Ming Hongzhi Emperor (r. 1488-1505), hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 80 x 60.8 in. Ming dynasty, ca. 1500.

ANIGE, White Stupa, 164 ft. h., Yuan dynasty, 1279. Miaoying Temple, Beijing.

Thangka with Yamantaka (Vajrabhairava), embroidery and weaving, 57.5 x 29.9 in., Ming dynasty, ca. 1400.

YAN Hui, Li Tieguai, one of a set of two hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk, 6 ft. 3 in. x 31.4 in., Yuan dynasty, ca. 1300.

Plate with dragon designs, Longquan ware, stoneware with celadon glaze and appliqué designs, 17 in. diam., Yuan dynasty, 1300-1400. Kiln site at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Covered jar, porcelain with relief decoration and painting in underglaze blue and copper red, 16.6 in. h., Yuan dynasty, 1300-1400. Kiln site at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.