Sui Dynasty Art – Painting and porcelain in Medieval China
Sui Dynasty art: a clay camel, ca. 600-650 AD What came before the Sui Dynasty? In the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese artists had learned a lot about Indian and West [...]
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Stone Age Chinese Art – Early China
Jar from Ban'po, 4800 BC The earliest form of art we know from China was pottery - clay pitchers and bowls starting about 5000 BC. Most of the best early [...]
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Shang Dynasty Chinese Art – Bronze Age China
Shang bronze pitcher, about 1300 BC(Musee Guimet, Paris) When did the Bronze Age start in China? By about 2000 BC, people in China learned from the people of West Asia how [...]
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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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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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Ming Dynasty Architecture – Forbidden City
Hall of Supreme Harmony Forbidden City (Beijing, 1406 AD) - Ming Dynasty Architecture What's the Forbidden City? Early Ming Emperors built Taoist temples to show their power, like the Golden [...]
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Han Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
Eastern Han watchtower (an ancient Chinese model, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did people build in the Han Dynasty? By the time of the Han Dynasty, about [...]
