Ming Dynasty Chinese art – Medieval China
Ming Dynasty Chinese art Ming emperors unify Chinese art After the Mongols were thrown out of China, and the Chinese emperors took over again in the Ming Dynasty of the [...]
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Ancient Chinese Art – Early China – History of Art
Ancient Chinese art: Song Dynasty painting General themes of ancient Chinese art From the earliest Stone Age art to the Ming Dynasty in 1500 AD, Chinese artists took up the [...]
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Han Dynasty Chinese Art – Ancient China – Han Art History
Han art: An embroidered Chinese boddhisatva (on cloth) wearing a pearl necklace When was the Han Dynasty? There were three big changes in Chinese art in the Han Dynasty. One [...]
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Drawing a pitcher – Chinese Art project
Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription (Musee Guimet, Paris) What if you were a bronze-smith in ancient China? Use colored pencils to draw your own [...]
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Zhou Dynasty Chinese Art – Early China
Western Zhou bronze vessel from China (now in the Musee Guimet, Paris) Western Zhou art The first part of the Zhou Dynasty is called the Western Zhou, and it runs [...]
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Qin Dynasty Chinese Art – Early China
Terracotta warriors The Qin Dynasty didn't last very long (only 15 years) and so there wasn't time to develop any special style of art. Mostly even experts can't tell Qin [...]
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Three Kingdoms Art – Early Medieval China
Wei Dynasty camel (northern China, 500-550 AD) (Musee Guimet, Paris) It was in the time of the Three Kingdoms that the first artists appear whose names we still know today. [...]
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Central Asian Art
Tillya Tepe gold crown - Afghanistan, ca. 100 BC-100 AD Art you can carry around Because the people of Central Asia started out as nomads, riding their horses and camels [...]
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Later Central Asian Art – History of Art
Turkmenistan painting in a Chinese-Islamic style The collapse of the Mongol Empire in the end of the Middle Ages meant that artists scattered to the courts of many smaller states [...]
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History of Pottery – Clay Pottery
History of pottery: Philistine pottery (compare Mycenaean Greek pottery) What is pottery? Pottery is dishes, plates, cups, cooking pots, and storage jars made out of clay. People make dishes and pots [...]
