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Art History
Undergraduate 2
05/13/2013

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Term
India
Definition
  • Indus Civilization: c. 2500-1500 BCE
  • Buddha, 6th Century BCE
  • Ashoka 3rd Century BCE
  • Gupta Period, c. 320- c. 550
  • Pala Period, 750-1120
  • Mughal Empire, 1526-1756
  • In 1947, India's Independence

 

Term
Definition
Ashoka
Gandhara
Chaitya
Shiva
Ellora
Mughal Painting School
Term
[image]
Definition

The Great Stupa

Ashoka Period

India

1st Century

Term
[image]
Definition

The Chaitya Hall

India

7th Century

Term
[image]
Definition

Borobudur

India

8th Century

 

  • boro=village
  • budur=mountain
  • "The mountain of combined virtues of the ten stages of Boddhisattvahood.”
Term
[image]
Definition

Shiva Nataraja

India

 

  • the destroyer or transformer
  • In images, he is represented in deep meditation or dancing upon Apasmara Purusha, the demon of ignorance in his manifestation of Nataraja, the lord of the dance
     
     
Term
[image]
Definition

Madhu Madhavi Ragini

India

17th Century

 

  • A love story.
    Nayika, seeks her beloved, heedless of perils and tribulations, such as serpents, snakes, ghosts, and storm.
     
Term
[image]
Definition

Angkor Vat

Cambodia

 

  • Built by Suryavarman II (r. 1113-1150)
  • Enlargement of Ta Keo
  • Dedicated to god Vishnu
  • Main pyramid is surmounted by a cental tower, and towers at the four corners
  • Long gallery walls and corridors with roofs
     
     
     
Term
[image]
Definition

Mother and Child

Jamini Roy

India

 

 

Term
China
Definition
  • Pre-21st century BCE
  • Shang dynasty, 16th-11th century BCE
  • Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
  • Tang dynasty, 618-907
  • Song dynasty, 960-1279
  • Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
  • People’s Republic of China, 1949-
     
     
     
Term
Definition
  • Yangshao Culture
  • Chang'an
  • Ma-Xia School
  • Enamel
  • Left-Wing woodcut prints
  • Bada Shanren

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Pen Bowl with "Mask" Motif

Yangshao Culture

China

 

 

Red pottery, black ink painted.
Human mask
Geometric figure.
Fishes.
Totem?
 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jue

Shang Dynasty

Bronze

China

 

ceremonial vessel

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Terracotta Army

Qin Dynasty

China

 

  • used to protect emperor in afterlife

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Han Painting

2nd Century CE

ink and color on silk

 

 

Formal and balanced composition
Depict three world levels: sky, earth, and nether region.
Outlined linear brush strokes.

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Empress Zetian Wu Maitreya Statue

China

 

Term
[image]
Definition

The White Stupa of Miaoying Temple

China

 

  • Tibetan Style

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Court Ladies Wearing Flowers in their Hair

Tang Dynasty

Ink and color on silk

China

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Fish, Bird, and Rock

 

Term
[image]
Definition

European Family

18th Century

Blanc de Chine

Dehua

 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Monument to the People's Heroes

 

  • a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of the People's Republic of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located in the southern edge of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, to the north of Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.

 

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

My Dream

Xu Mangyao

Oil on canvas

 

 

A broken head of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
An old wall of imperial palace.
 

 

Term
Korea
Definition
Three Kingdoms: 4th century – 668 CE
Unified Silla period, 668–935
Koryo Dynasty, 918-1392
Choson period, 1392-1910
Term
[image]
Definition

The Seokguram Grotto

Korea

Silla

Term
[image]
Definition

Plum Vase

Inlaid Celadon glazed stoneware

Koryo Period

 

Term
[image]
Definition

"Bookshelf" Screen

Yi Dynasty

Korea

Term
Japan
Definition
Kofun period, 248-646
Asuka period, 538 – 645
Nara period, 710 - 794
Heian period, 794 1185
Muromachi period, 1392-1573
Edo period, 1615-1868
Meiji period, 1868-
 
Term
Definition
Kofun
onna-e
Nanga
Yoga
Ukiyo-e
Term
[image]
Definition

Haniwa

Japan

 

  • purpose= tomb figure

 

Term
[image]
Definition

From Illustration to the "Azumaya" chapter of the Tale of Genji

Japan

Heian Period

Term
[image]
Definition

Irises

Ogata Korin

Japan Edo Period

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Rain Shower at Ohashi Bridge

Japan

Woodblock print

 

 

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Perspective, western influence.
Naturalistic style.
Scenes of Edo
 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Fresh-water cup for tea ceremony

Japan

Shino ware

Term
[image]
Definition

Akasaka

Japan

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