Transcript Standing figure (Guanghan Sanxingdui, China), Shang dynasty, c

Art of China
Standing figure (Guanghan
Sanxingdui, China), Shang
dynasty, c. 1200 BCE, bronze
Gong of animal
forms (Anyang,
China), 12th or 11th
century BCE,
bronze
Shang dynasty/
gong (guang)/
zoomorphic/
bilateral symmetry/
casting vs. firing/
varied animal
motifs/ Chinese
attitude toward
nature
Bi (disk) (late
Zhou dynasty),
3rd to 4th
century,
nephrite
Zhou dynasty/
bi disk/ use of
jade to suggest
rank and
status/ Chinese
dragons
Above: k’uei dragon
Right: lung dragon
Left: Rectangular “hu” vessel
(Late Western Zhou period)
Below: Wine container of the
“you” type, 10th century BCE
Soldiers of the Imperial Bodyguard, tomb of the
Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi (Shaanxi, China)
c. 210 BCE, painted terracotta
6,000 lifesize terracotta soldiers used to convey
power and authority/ soldiers facing eastward
Legalism/ model of the
imperial palace
weapons of war
The Great Wall
Funeral banner from
the Tomb of Dai
(Western Han dynasty),
c. 168 BCE, painted silk
Han dynasty/
realms of heaven and earth
reappearance of a “bi”
the raven and the toad/ the Silk Road
Fragment of a
stamped brick
depicting the
Queen of the
West seated on a
tiger throne and
surrounded by
the fox, the hare
with the herb of
immortality, the
toad of the
Moon, and the
raven
Incense burner,
from the tomb of
Prince Liu Sheng
(Han dynasty), 113
BCE, bronze with
gold inlay
Mythological scenes from the Wu family shrine (late
Han dynasty), 147-168 CE, rubbing of a stone relief
Confucian
themes/ Yi, the
legendary
archer, shoots
at one of the
sun-crows/ a
Fusang tree/
contours of
figures
suggesting
linear rhythm
Attributed to Gu Kaizhi. Lady Feng and the Bear,
detail of Admonitions of the Instructress… (Period of
Disunity), late fourth century CE
Gu Zaizhi/ Period of Disunity/ the Chinese handsroll/
absence of a setting/ Xie He’s Six Laws