1. Sui & Tang Dynasties
618-907 CE

2. Major points about the Tang
• Unification of China, political power
• Cosmopolitan culture, foreign contacts
• Buddhism
• Painting & Calligraphy
– Figure painting
– Landscape
• Blue & Green Style
– Horses
– Calligraphy: expression, individualism and the birth of
the literati class

3. • Overview of grottoes at Longmen

5. • Longmen Main Grotto

10. • Wall panel relief from Longmen, showing
Emperor & court worshipping Buddha

11. • 2006 reenactment of Empress Wu’s
Buddhist rituals at Longmen

12. • Relief showing Empress Wei & her attendants at a ritual

14. • Donors at Longmen

15. • Longmen
Relief
showing
Siddhartha, or
Gautama
Buddha

16. • Qianling mausoleum complex, spirit way

17. • Stone guardian animals on the spirit way

18. • Tomb of Prince Yide, cutaway drawing

19. • From tomb of Prince Yide, scene of court
officials and foreign delegates

20. • Polo match, in the Tomb of Prince Yide

21. • Hunting Scene
from Tomb of
Zhanghuai

22. • Horse rider, from Zhanghaui’s tomb

23. • Polo Player, Zhanghaui’s tomb

24. • A western “Barbarian” and camel

25. • Princess Yongtai’s tomb

26. • Passage into the
tomb

27. • Entrance to Princess Yongtai's tomb
chamber at Qian Long

28. • Mural from Princess Yongtai’s tomb

29. East wall of Yongtai’s tomb

30. • Tomb figurines from Princess Yongtai’s
tomb

31. • Zhou Fang, Ladies Wearing Flowers in
their Hair, 8th
C

36. • Zhou Fang, Tuning the Lute and Drinking
Tea

39. • Ladies preparing newly woven silk, Zhang
Xuan (13th
C copy by Song Emperor Hui
tsung). Full scroll.

40. • Ladies preparing newly woven silk, det.

41. • Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618–906),
8th century
Han Gan (Chinese, active 742–56)
Handscroll; ink on paper; 12 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.

46. http://www.chinapage.com/painting/guhongzhong/guhongzhong4.html

47. • Han XiZai Gives a Banquet

53. The Emperor Ming-huang's Journey to Shu (copy) attributed to Li Zhaodao, 8th
c

54. •
• EMPEROR
TAIZONG
ARRIVING AT
JIUCHENG
PALACE. ca. 1500
Ming dynasty
Traditionally
attributed to Li Sixun
, (Chinese, 651 –
718, Tang Dynasty)

55. • Huai-su Autobiography, 618 - 907 AD, 12-
1/4"h x 594-1/2"w. (section detail)
View the whole scroll here:
– http://www.davidnovak.com/paper2000-2001/fullscrol
– Or
– http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~qingchen/treasures/Autob

56. • Yen Chen-ch'ing (709-785): Funeral
Address for Nephew Chi-ming, Tang
dynasty (draft)
– See scrollable view here:
– http://www.npm.gov.tw/english/exhbition/ease0

57. • Det.