Xu Xianxiu used to be a commander in the Bei Qi army, in Shanxi. When he died (571) he was buried in a very nice tomb, built of bricks, with a vaulted chamber and a corridor, colorful and vivid scenes painted on every wall. At the first glance, these paintings look very much like those found in Middle Tang funeral imperial mausoleums, with strong lines and plain colors, human figures occupying the entire surface and leaving no place for extra subjects, like landscapes, rather current as early as the sixth century in eastern and southern parts of the Central Plain. However, the point is that the Xu Xianxiu 's paintings were created some 150 years earlier than the Tang dynasty (618-907). Confronting this tomb with other major discoveries of t...
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Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
Zhaoling is one of the very few imperial mausolea that has received considerable attention in its 1,...
In the first part of this study a context is set for the research, and translations of classic an...
Conflict and Assimilation between Regional Cultures : Xu Xianxiu used to be a commander in the Bei Q...
Conflict and Assimilation between Regional Cultures : Xu Xianxiu used to be a commander in the Bei Q...
Sédentarisés dans le nord-ouest de la Chine actuelle pendant la dynastie Tang, les Tangoutes créèren...
The Jiuquan tombs, on the western frontier of China and dated to the third and early fourth centurie...
New excavations in a small cemetery (Xiabali, Xuanhe, Hebei prov.) of the end of the Liao dynasty ar...
The appearance of the « untrammeled painting » (yi) in China in the middle of the 8th c. represents ...
Several late sixth-century stone items of tomb furniture unearthed over the past decade in north Chi...
Yuling, the tomb of the Manchu emperor Qianlong (r.1736- 1796), built between 1743 and 1752, is abso...
The Northern Dynasties (386-581 CE) marked a turning point in Chinese history. After the collapse of...
The Xixia (Western Xia) imperial necropolis, nestled against the Helan Mountains, lies about 35 km w...
To extend the imperial authority to the newly conquered lands, early Western Han emperors in the sec...
In this number, the Astana paintings of Fuhsi and Nü-wa excavated by Chinese are first introduced. T...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
Zhaoling is one of the very few imperial mausolea that has received considerable attention in its 1,...
In the first part of this study a context is set for the research, and translations of classic an...