Ritual to Pray for Good Harvest

Wang Xizhi

300-360

Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection

Wang Xizhi

300-360

Wild Cursive script

Zhang Xu

675-759

The Admonitions of the instructress to the palace ladies

Gu Kaizhi

345-406

Lacquer screen from the tomb of Sima Jinlong

ca 480

Datong, Shanxi

The 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Oiqi

molded bricks

Tomb near Nanjing

first half of 5th c

Nelson Sarcophagus, said to have been found near Luoyang

Ca 530

Nelson Gallery, Kansas City

Seated Buddha

Dates 338

Gilt bronze

Buddha Maitreya

486 gilt bronze

Altarpiece dedicated to Maitreya

Gilt bronze

524

Longmen cave chapels

Near Luoyang, Henan

Altarpiece dedicated to Maitreya

Gilt bronze

524

Longmen cave chapels

Near Luoyang, Henan

Cave 428, ca 525

The Hungry Tigress Jataka

Dunhuang, Gansu

Cave 285

Ca 530

The 500 Robbers

Dunhaug, Gansu

Yan Liben (ca 600-673), Emperor Taizong Receiving Envoys from Tibet

Yan Liben (600-673) Thirteen Emperors

Zhou Fang

(ca 766-796)

Tuning the Lute and Drinking Tea

Zhou Fang,

ca 766-96

Ladies Playing Double Sixes

Chargers of Emperor Taizong

7th c

Han Gan (740-756), Night Shining White

Wu Zongyuan, 11^th c after Wu Daozi (720-760) Daoist immortals

Wang Wei (701-76) The Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Classics

Emperor Taizong, Eulogy on the Hot Springs, 7^th c

Yan Zhenqing,

Draft of Eulogy for My Nephew, 758

Huaisu (ca 725-782)

Autobiography