The 14th century dragon king temple in Southern Shanxi is the only known intact survivor of this ancient Water God institution once existing in every Chinese agricultural community. After describing the history, lay-out and mural paintings of the building, its original Yuan time…
Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil
Ajanta: history and development
by Spink, Walter M., Yaguchi, Naomichi
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
Ajanta: history and development
by Spink, Walter M., Yaguchi, Naomichi
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
Introduction: Image encounters -- Mural origins and coastal corporealities -- Ancestral divinities, Norcosteño design, and the aesthetics of replication in Moche mural art (200-650 CE) -- Siting narratives: Moche mural painting and the condensation of a medium (650-850 CE) -- Ar…
Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive…
The present book is the outcome of 20 years of archeological research of a multidisciplinary team lead by archaeologist Bernarda Delgado Elías, Director of the Site Museum of Túcume and by its founding director, Alfredo Narváez Vargas. Divided in eight chapters, the edition pres…
In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corpore…
In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corpore…