Quwwat al-Islam mosque

• pre-Mughal period
• Delhi
• iron column inside from Hindu Temple
• columns taken from 27 destroyed Hindu shrines

Qutub Minar

• at Quwwat al-Islam mosque
• pre-Mughal period
• Delhi
• 238 feet tall, making it the tallest stone tower in the world
• impractical as a means of calling the faithful to prayer

Jahangir enthroned

• Mughal period
• The Mughals had no long tradition of painting of their own and their style tends to be very eclectic, borrowing from Hindu, Chinese, and European styles, which they would have known through their trading relationships

Jahangir and Shah Abbas

• Mughal period

Taj Mahal

• Mughal period
• built by Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Majal
• width of base = height = 250 feet

Hour of Cowdust

• Rajput painting
• Mughal period

Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams

• Fan Kuan 
•   - Fan Kuan was a professional artist who worked in the painting academy attached to the court
• Song Dynasty
• ink on silk, about 6 feet high
• neo-Confucianism 

Rock and Old Tree

• Su Dungpo
• Song Dynasty
• ink on paper

The Rongxi Studio

• Ni Zan
• Yuan Dynasty
• ink on paper
• colophon - inscription on a work of art

Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains

• Zhao Mengfu
• Yuan Dynasty
• hemp-fiber texture stroke

Poet on a Mountaintop

• Shen Zhou
• Ming Dynasty
• ink and color on paper

Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacock

• Yin Hong
• Ming Dynasty
• ink and color on silk

Forbidden City

• Ming Dynasty
• home of 24 emperors for about 500 years, their wives, consorts, and children
• staffed by eunuchs

Hall of Supreme Harmony

• Forbidden City
• Ming Dynasty

Ru Ware Celadon

• Song Dynasty
• celadon glazes were an attempt to imitate jade

Ru Ware Stoneware

• Song Dynasty
• stoneware - pottery fired at a much higher temperature (1250 C) than earthenware

Blue and White Porcelain Vase

• Ming Dynasty
• cobalt blue is one of the only colors that can withstand the high temperatures needed to fire porcelain
• underglaze porcelain - when the decoration is placed under the glaze

Overglaze enamel porcelains

• Qing Dynasty
• porcalin vessels are covered with clear glaze and fired
• THEN they're decorated with enamel glazes and refired, making it overglaze enamel porcelain

Landscape

• Shitao
• Qing Dynasty
• ink and color on paper

One Hundred Horses in a Landscape

• Lang Shining [Giuseppe Castiglione]
• Qing Dynasty
• Castiglione was a Jesuit who arrived in Beijing in 1715
• he began to learn about Chinese culture to better convert the Chinese

Self-Portrait

• Ren Xiong
• Qing Dynasty
• Ren Xiong was the leader of a group called the Shanghai School, who sought to revive Chinese painting by adopting elements of Western styles, while also maintaining the Chinese emphasis on the calligraphic line

Six Persimmons

• Mu Qi
• Song Dynasty
• these paintings only survived because they were collected by Japanese patrons

The Sixth Chan Patriarch, Hui-neng, Achieves Enlightenment while Chopping Bamboo

• Liang Kai
• Song Dynasty
• these paintings only survived because they were collected by Japanese patrons

Cottage by a Mountain Stream

• Mincho
• Muromachi Period

Catching a Catfish with a Gourd

• Josetsu
• Muromachi Period

Winter Landscape

• Sesshu
• Muromachi Period
• Sesshu traveled to Ming dynasty China to study Chinese painting at its source
• gave his paintings his own flavor
• arguably the most famous painter in Japanese history

Splashed Ink (Haboku) Landscape

• Sesshu
• Muromachi Period

Anonymous Yamato-e

• Muromachi Period
• yamato-e: "Japanese (style) painting"
• yamato is an ancient name for Japan

Summer

• From Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons
• Kano Motonobu
• Muromachi Period

Pine and Cranes

• Kano Eitoku
• Muromachi Period

Himeji Castle

• Momoyama Period

Cypress

• Kano Eitoku
• Momoyama Period

Tea Ceremony

• [Cha-no-yu]
• tokonoma - display alcove

Raku Tea Bowls

• Momoyama Period

Irises

• Ogata Korin
• Edo Period

Lacquer Writing Box

• Ogata Korin
• Edo Period
• Korin was the founder of the Rinpa School, which arose in the ancient capital of Kyoto during the Edo period

Street Scene in Yoshiwara

• Moronobu
• Edo Period
• red-light district of Edo
• ukiyo-e - images of the floating world (Yoshiwara)

Actor Print

• Torii Kiyomasu
• Edo Period
• the Torii family of painters started off as actors from Osaka, who moved to Edo in the late 17th century
• started off doing posters for their own plays that they were in

Flowers of Beauty in the Floating World

• Harunobu
• Edo Period

Highest Ranking Courtesan

• Utamaro
• from series Five Shades of Ink from the Northern Quarter
• Edo Period

Actor Print

• Sharaku
• Edo Period
• Sharaku was only active for about 10 months before he disappeared completely

Great Wave off Kanagawa

• Hokusai
• from 36 Views of Mt. Fuji
• Edo Period

Night Snow at Kambara

• Hiroshige
• from 53 Stations of the Tokaido
• 1833 - 34 

The Goddess Coatlicue

• Aztec
• coatlicue - "She of the serpent skirt"
• gave birth to the sun god
• her other children, the stars and moon, tried to kill him
• he drove them away, killing and dismembering the moon goddess in the process

Feather Headdress of Moctezuma II

• Aztec
• Quetzal bird

Schematic View of the World

• Aztec
• 1450 - 1519
• the Aztecs ordered the universe into 5 directions: north, south, east, west and center
• at the center is the god Xiuheteculi, god of fire, time, and the calender

Macchu Picchu

• Inca
• Peru
• Only Inca city that survives intact

Intihuatana

• Machu Picchu
• Inca
• Peru
• tells the time of day and also the Spring and Winter equinox

Temple of the Three Windows 

• Machu Picchu
• Inca
• Peru
• the 3 windows, which align with 3 sacred mountains, are thought to represent the 3 caves from which the children of the sun emerged

Woven Tunic

• Inca
• Peru
• serape

Two Grey Hills Tapestry Weaving

• Julia Jumbo
• Navajo
• New Mexico
• 2003
• weaving was important to the Navajo, who believed the universe was created by the weaving of the Spider Woman
• considered a female activity

Wampum Belt

• or William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware
• 1680s
• Eastern Woodlands

Battle Scene

• painting on buffalo hide
• Mandan
• 1797 - 1800
• Great Plains
• collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition lead by 15 year old Sacagawea

Grizzly Bear House-Partition Screen

• Tlingit people
• 1840
• Northwest Coast
• totem - animals having supernatural powers from whom specific clans are believed to descend
• shaman - "medicine man"
•  - a healer who would enter a trance to communicate with the other world to gain knowledge or bring the worlds into alignment
• oviod - oval with squared edges

Kwakwaka'wakw Bird Mask

• Willie Seaweed
• before 1951
• Northwest Coast

Chilkat Blanket

• Tlingit people
• before 1928
• Northwest Coast

Taos Pueblo

• Laura Gilpin
• photographed 1947
• New Mexico
• Southwest

Blackware Storage Jar

• Maria Montoya Martinez and Julian Martinez
• 1942
• earthenware
• Maria was taught to make pottery as a child
• considered a woman's art by the Pueblo since only a woman should dig into Mother Earth