The great Stupa

(sanchi, India)

first century CE

• Stupa- earthen mound containing relics of the Buddha. Function: walk around clockwise belief circular movement brings the devotee into harmony with the cosmos. Called Circumambulation 

Early relics

• small bones, bits of hair , cremation

the enlightenment from the west gateway of the Great Stupa

• shows great departure
• feet and wheels 
• wheel represents reincarnation
• feet - footprints of buddha

(pakistan)

2nd to 3rd century

stone

a new image of Buddha

cloths drapery roman like

hands in a meditation pose

eyes are open and looking outward and has a mark as a symbol of enlightenment -wisdom bump (figure 2)

(sarnath india)

5th century CE

symbol of wisdom

sheer fabric to portray the body

slender, feminine, abstract 

(figure 3)

a halo behind him - light

little people below him

has a wheel to represent teaching

rings around the neck

hands meant gesture of teaching (turning of the wheel)

deogarh, india

6th century

used as a hindu temple as a residence for a god

narration

Vishnu reclining on the serpent of eternity

Gupta style

smooth bodies, clinging garments

sculpted niches 

shows episodes of vishnu

sleeps on serpent coils

dreams the univers into realit

hindu temple

toward vishnu

elevated with stairs

skikharas “ mountain peak” towers  

deities take many sculptural forms

use mathematical proportions 

mandapa- main hall precedes the shrine. Used for recitation of hymns (chanting) deity worship

Garbhaghriha- inner santuary. “womb chamber” the shirne. Circumambulation, most sacred images

depicts shiva

many hands

indian

god 

hinduism

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 Shiva and his family (picture not coming up)

Hinduism

Show shiva

narrative

family associations

dieties

commeners

The Buddha

• The Buddha was born as Prince siddhartha gautama
• encountered his first hand pain of old age, sickness, and death
• renounced at 29. search of knowledge through meditation
• enlightened at 35. Meditating underneath the bodhi tree

A dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist shrine.

Tomb of qin shin haungdi 

1rst emperor of china

subterranean army

individualized 

terracotta

statues with armor

life size army to protect emperor in afterlife

6,000 conveys power and authority

soldiers facing eastward

weapons, soldiers, and horses

funeral banner from the tomb of dai

han dynasty 

painted silk

realms of heaven and earth

3 levels

top - heaven

raven on sun and moon signify

middle human world

bottom - underworld

lady fang and the bear

reversed gender roles

Fan Juan

travelers among mountains and streams

song dynasty

hanging scroll 

ink and colors on silk

Daoism 

humans in the vast scale of nature

a shifting perspective

use of mist to separate the background from the foreground

neo-confucianism

darks and light use 

liao dynasty

projcting eaves and cantilevered balaconies

the axis mundi

Person cutting bambo

natural

genre painting

emphasizes morality, conformity, duty, and self- discipline

an ethical system based on 5 constant relationships

a wide body of elites, their relationships with each other and their emperors

dao or the way described as un unchanging principle from which all things come to be, a formless unfathomable source of all things

ask for humans to return to nature; take refuge in a natural world

Well-educated people who are interested in literature.

symbols of japan

mean peace and love

ise shrine

shinto shrine 

wood

rebuilt every 20 years

hakuho period

buddhist architecture

introduced around 6th century

religion grounded with imperial support

elite status

worlds oldest wooden building

4 entrances

inside statues of the Buddha

Katsushika Hokusai. The Greave Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1826-33, woodblock print

waves realistic 

The Plum Garden in Kameido

like van goh

very abstract

big represents power and authority

king

olmec

17

headgear

mayan

king on jaguar throne

human sacrifice

textiles

Embroidered Paracas mantle with shaman figures