From Neolithic To Whenever We Ended Flashcards
Time period of Neolithic China
5000 - 1500 BCE
Describe the art pictured below
Who: N/a
What: Earthenware. Made of red or gray clay. Porous. Often painted on animals
Where: Yongshao
When: Neolithic China (4500-3700 BCE)
Why: Possibly holding things for funerals (often found in tombs)
How: Using the coiling method, baked in the sun, unglazed.
Describe a Hu
What: A Hu (a bowl) with a human faced fish image
Where: Banpo villages
When: Neolithic China (4800-4200 BCE)
How: Coiling method
Describe
What: Stem cup made of black pottery
Where: Longshan
When: (around 2600)
Why: Pottery wheel,
How: Burnished, incised ornamentation
Describe the Green Circular Disk
What: Jade/Nephrite Bi
Where: Liangzhu
When: 2700-2200 BCE
Why: Associated with heaven
How: Unknown, but likely some kind of grinding
Describe
What: Jade Cong
Where: Liangzhu
When: 2700-2200 BCE
Why: Likely associated with tradition and earth.
Describe
What: Jade Animal Mask
Where: Neolithic China
When: 4700-2950 BCE
Time period of Jomon Japan
13,500-500 BCE
Describe
What: Early Jomon Earthenware. Coiling method pottery
Where: Japan
When: Japan Neolithic Era 13,500-500 BCE
Why: Used by common man
How: Rope/twine wrapped around clay to impress it.
Describe the statue
What: Female Dogu Figurine
Where: Late Jomon Japan
When: Neolithic (2000-1000 BCE)
How: Pottery, Coiling method
Describe
What: Coffee bean eye dogu
Where: Late Jomon Japan
When: 1000-400 BCE
How: Coiling method
Describe
What: Middle Period Jomon Earthenware
Where: Jomon Japan
When: 3500-2500 BCE
Why: Common man carrying vessel
How: Coiling Method
Describe
What: Middle Jomon Flame Pot
Where: Jomon Japan
When: 3500-2500 BCE
Why: Rich People
How: Coiling Method
Timeline for Indus Valley Civilization
3300-1300 BCE
Describe
What: War scene painting
Where: Bhimbetka, India
When: Paleolithic India (50,000-12000 BCE)
Describe
What: Stamp Seal/Modern Impression made of burnt steatite
Where: Indus Valley Civilization
When: 2600-1900 BCE
Why: To create impressions in other things almost like a printer
Describe
What: Ceremonial Vessel
Where: Mohenjo-daro
When: 2600-2450 BCE
Describe
What: Terracotta Goddess figure statue
Where: Mohenjo-daro
When: 2500-2300 BCE
Why: Worship
How:
Describe
What: Dancing girl bronze statue
Where: Mohenjo-daro
When: 2400-1900 BCE
Shang Dynasty Timeline
1650-1050 BCE
What: Oracle bones (the earliest form of writing in China)
Where: Anyang China
When: Shang Dynasty (1650-1050 BCE)
Why: Divination
Describe the Taotie
What: Dragon face found on a lot of Chinese art
Describe
What: Ivory Beaker
Where: Tomb of Lady Fu Hao
When: 1200 BCE
Why: Funerary Item
Describe
What: Bronze square ding
Where: Shang Dynasty (1200 BCE)
Why: Holding food
How: Clay models
Describe
What: Bronze Vessel (You)
Where: Shang Dynasty (1650 - 1050 BCE)
Zhou Dynasty Timeline
1027-226 (BCE)
Describe
What: Bronze Shi Qiang Basin
Where: Western Zhou
When: 10 Century BCE
Describe
What: Bronze Wine Vessel
Where: Zhou Dynasty China
When: 12 Century BCE
Why: Holding Wine duh
Describe
What: Bronze Wine Container
Where: Eastern Zhou
When: 5th Century BCE
Explain the significance of the Qin Dynasty
- 221-206 BCE
- Standardization of written language
- Standardization of measuring/weight
- Centralization of Bureaucracy
Han Dynasty Timeline
202 BCE - 220 CE
Describe
What: Funerary banner of Lady Dai on Silk
Where: Mawangdui Tomb
When: Han Dynasty (180 BCE)
Describe
What: Lacquer Vessel
Where: Mawangdui
When: Han Dynasty (180 BCE)
Yayoi Time Period
300 BCE - 300 CE
Describe
What: Dōtaku Bronze Bell
Where: Yayoi Period
Kofun Period
300 - 710
Describe
What: Haniwa Warrior
Where: Kofun Period Japan
When: 6th Century CE
How: Terracotta
Who: Emperor Ashoka
What: Lion Capital
Where: Sarnath, India (Mauryan Empire)
When: 3rd Century BCE
Why: Wheel turning emperor
What: Great Stupa (stupa no. 1)
Where: Sanchi
When: 3rd century BCE
Three Types of Narratives of Sanchi
Monoscenic - 1 character - single moment frozen in time
Continuous Narrative - Multiple scenes from a story one after the other
Synoptic Narrative - Multiple episodes in one frame all happening at once.
What: War over Buddha’s relics architraves (Continuous narrative)
Where: Kushingar
When: Satavahana period 1 BCE - 1 CE
What: Temptation of Buddha sandstone relief architrave
Where: Stupa 1 at Sanchi
When: Satavahana period (1 BCE - 1 CE)
What: Departure of Buddha from the palace sandstone relief (monoscenic)
Where: Sanchi stupa no 1
When: 1 BCE - 1 CE
What: Seated Buddha sandstone relief (no fear mudra)
Where: Mathura
When: 2nd century
Why: Eastern inspired
What: Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the future) gray schist statue
Where: Gandhara
When: 3rd Century
Why: Western Inspired
What: Figure of Maitreya Buddha in Mogao Caves
Where: Mogao caves in Northern Liang
When: 397-439
What: Jataka tale of historical Buddha sacrificing himself for a tiger
Where: Mogao Caves, China
When: 330-500
What: Seated Buddha gilt bronze
Where: China
When: 300 CE
Why: Mudra of meditation
What: Hamsa (golden goose) Jataka tale
Where: Ajanta caves (Maharashtra, India)
What: Tiger Jataka
Where: Tamamushi Shrine, Japan
When: Mid 7th century Asuka period
Who: Tori Busshi
What: Shakyamuni Triad bronze
Where: Horyuji Temple, Japan
When: 623 CE
What: Buddha earth touching mudra
Where: Binyang Cave
When: Binyang Cave, Longmen China
How: Sandstone
Who: Gu Kiazhi
What: Nymph of Lou River handscroll
Where:
When: 4th century (og) this is a 12/13th century replica
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
Who: Atr. Gu Kiazhi
What: Lady Feng and the Bear
Where: The Admonitions of the instructress to the Palace ladies
When: 345-406
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
Who: Atr. Gui Kaizhi
What: Lady Ban Refusing to Ride with the Emperor
Where:
When: 345-406
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
SuI dynasty years
581-618
Tang Dynasty
618-907
Who: Night-Shining White
What: Gan Gan
Where:
When: Ca. 750 CE
Why:
How: Ink on paper
Who: Minghuang
What: Journey to Shu
Where:
When: 8th century (og) this is a copy from 10/11th century
Why:
How: ink and colors on silk
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
907-979 CE
Who: Atr. Li Cheng
What: Small Wintry Grove
Where:
When:919-967
How: Ink on silk
Who: Atr. Li Cheng
What: Reading the Stele
Where:
When: 919-967
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
Who: Dong Yuan
What: Wintry Groves
Where:
When: ca. 950
Why:
How: Ink and light color on silk
Who: Dong Yuan
What: Layered Banks
Where:
When: ca. 950
Why:
How: Ink and light color on silk
Who: Atr. Dong Yuan
What: Waiting for the Ferry
Where:
When: c. 934-962
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
Who: Fan Kuan
What: Travelers Among Mountain Streams
Where:
When: 960-1030
Why: Highlighting massive scale of the scenery as opposed to the humans
How: Ink and color on silk
Song Dynasties
North Song 960-1127
South Song 1127-1279
Who: Zhang Zeduan
What: Journeying Up the River During the Qingming Festival
Where:
When: 11th century (northern song)
Why:
How: Ink and color on silk
Who: Atr. Guo Xi
What: Old Pines, Level Distance
Where: ca. 1080 (northern song)
When:
Why:
How: ink and color on silk
Attr. Guo Xi (ca. 1000-1090),
Traveling through Autumn Mountains.
Northern Song.
Ink and light colors on silk.
Li Gonglin 李公麟（ca.1041-1106),Illustration to the Classic of Filial Piety. Ca. 1085.
Northern Song. Ink and light color on silk, details from handscroll approx. 15.5’ wide.
Li Gonglin（ca.1041-1106), Five Horses. Ca. 1106. Northern Song. Ink on paper, handscroll approx. 6.5’ wide.
Attributed to Emperor Huizong. Auspicious Cranes (detail).
1112. Northern Song. Handscroll, ink and color on silk.
Emperor Huizong, Five-colored parakeet on a blossoming apricot tree. Ca. 1115.
Ink and color on silk, handscroll, approx. 4’ wide.
Emperor Huizong. Flowering Peach and Dove. 1108. Northern Song.
Ink and color on silk.
Emperor Huizong. Two Finches and Bamboo. Early 12th century. Northern Song. Ink and color on silk, handscroll.
Ma Yuan (active ca. 1190-1225)
Watching Plum Blossoms by Moonlight.
Early 13th century. Southern Song.
Ink and color on silk, fan painting.
Ma Lin (fl. ca. 1194-1264)
Waiting for Guests by Lamplight , ca.1250.
Southern Song. Ink and color on silk, fan painting.
Ma Yuan (ca. 1180-after 1256), and Empress Yang. Apricot Blossoms. Ca. 1200. Southern Song.
Ink and color on silk.
Ma Yuan. Scholar by a Waterfall.
Southern Song. Ink and color on silk,
album leaf.
Ma Yuan,
Watching Deer by a Stream.
Southern Song.
Ink and color on silk, album leaf.
Xia Gui (ca. 1180-1224), Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains. Southern Song.
Ink on paper, handscroll, approx. 29’ across.
Xia Gui (ca. 1180-1224), Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains. Southern Song.
Ink on paper, handscroll, approx. 29’ across.
Chen Rong (act. first half of 13th cent.), Nine Dragons, 1244. Southern Song.
Ink and light color on paper, handscroll approx. 49’ across.
Anonymous, Sparrows and Plum Blossoms, late 12th cent.
Southern Song. Fan painting, ink and color on silk
Jin Chushi (active late 12th century),
Ten Kings of Hell. Before 1195.Ink and color on silk, set of 10 hanging scrolls, approx. 4’ high each.
Wang Hong 王洪 (fl. ca. 1131-61) Eight Views of Xiang and Xiang.
Southern Song. Ink and light colors on silk.
Liang Kai (act. mid. 13th cent.)Shakyamuni Coming out of the
Mountains. Southern Song.
Ink and color on silk, hanging scroll approx. 3.5’ tall.
