Quwwat al-Islam mosque (1198)

Pre-Mughal period

New Delhi [key term: post and lintel architecture]

Qutub Minar at Quwwat al-Islam Mosque (1198) Pre-Mughal period

New Delhi

Tallest stone tower in world

Akbar-nama [Tales of Akbar]

(1590) Mughal Pd. 

[Akbar was the first to set up an imperial painting workshop]

Akbar-nama [Tales of Akbar]

(1590) Mughal Pd. 

[Akbar was the first to set up an imperial painting workshop]

Jahangir and Shah Abbas

(c. 1618) Mughal period 

Taj Mahal

(1631-1647)Mughal pd.

built by Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal 

Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams

Fan Kuan

(c. 1000), Northern Song Dynasty

ink on silk (about 6 feet high=monumental monochrome ink landscape)

the idea that the natural and human worlds are interconnected and that nature expresses a moral order 

(ex. Card 7)

Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams

Fan Kuan

(c. 1000) Northern Song Dynasty, detail

Rock and Old Tree

Su Dungpo

(mid-11th c.) Northern Song Dynasty

ink on paper

The Rongxi Studio

Ni Zan

(mid-14th c.) Yuan Dynasty

ink on paper

colophon=inscription on a work of art

Poet on a Mountaintop

Shen Zhou

(1500), Ming Dynasty

ink and color on paper

Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacock

Yin Hong

(c. 1600), Ming Dynasty

ink and color on silk

[professional]

Forbidden City, Ming Dynasty, e. 15th c.

Home of 24 emperors for about 500 years during the Ming and Qing dynasties

It is the world’s largest surviving palace compound.

Forbidden City

Hall of Supreme Harmony

Ming Dynasty 14th c.

Ru Ware, Celadon

Stoneware

Song Dynasty, e. 12th c.

Porcelain Vase

Ming Dynasty, c. 14th c.

Blue-and-White Porcelain Vase

Ming Dynasty, c. 14th c.

[underglaze porcelain]

Landscape

Shitao

(c. 1700), Qing Dynasty

ink and color on paper

[literati]

One Hundred Horses in a Landscape

Lang Shining [Guiseppe Castiglione]

(c. 1735), Qing dynasty

Self-Portrait

Ren Xiong

Qing Dynasty, 1850’s

Cottage by a Mountain Stream

Mincho

Muromachi Period, (1413)

ink on paper

Catching a Catfish with a Gourd

Josetsu

Muromachi Period (1431)

[Koan=Zen Riddle]

Winter Landscape

Sesshu

Muromachi Period, (1470s)

ink on paper

Dry Rock Garden

Ryoanji

Muromachi Period (15th c.)

Rock Garden

Daisen-in (e. 16th c.) 

Tea Ceremony

[Cha-no-yu]

[key terms:  tokonoma=display alcove]

Raku Tea bowls

stoneware

Momoyama Period (early 17th c.)

Himeji Castle

(1601-9) Momoyama Period

[There are two basic parts to the castle:

Donjon=fortified stone  basement

Tenshu=timber framed structure on top]

Street Scene in Yoshiwara

Moronobu

Edo Pd., 17th c.

A Youth Embracing a Beauty

Moronobu

Edo Pd., c. 1670s

Great Wave off Kanagawa

Hosukai

from 36 Views of Mt. Fuji

Edo Pd., 1830s

Great Wave off Kanagawa

Hokusai

from 36 Views of Mt. Fuji

Edo Pd., 1830s

Flowers of Beauty in the Floating World

Suzuki Harunobu

1769, Edo Period

The Founding of Tenochtitlan

Codex  Mendoza (1545)

Aztec

Schematic View of the World

(c. 1400-1519)

Aztec

Finds at Great Temple: Skull Rack and Relief Sculpture of Dismembered Moon Goddess

(c. 1500), Aztec

The Goddess Coatlicue

(c. 1500) Aztec

Calendar Stone

(c. 1500), Aztec

Feather Headdress of Moctezuma II (before 1519), Aztec

[Quetzal bird]

Machu Picchu

(1450-1530), Inca

Peru

Itihuatana

Machu Picchu

(1450-1530), Inca

Peru

[“Inti”=Sun God, “huata”=hitch up]

Temple of Three Windows

Machu Picchu

(1450-1530), Inca

Peru 

Woven Tunic

(c. 1500), Inca

Peru

Wampum Belt, William Penn’s Treaty with the Delaware Tribe

(1680s), Eastern Woodlands

Baby Carrier

(19th c.), Eastern Sioux

Eastern Woodlands

buckskin and porcupine quill

Shoulder Bag

Delaware Tribe

Eastern Woodlands (c. 1860)

Battle Scene

Buffalo Hide

(c. 1800) Great Plains

Grizzly Bear House Partition Screen

(c. 1840)

Tlingit People

Northwest Coast

Kwakwaka’wakw Mask

(c. 1950)

Northwest Coast

Chilkat Blanket

(before 1928)

Tlingit people

Northwest Coast

Taos Pueblo (photo 1947)

Laura Gilpin

New Mexico, Southwest

Blackware Storage Jar

Maria and Julian Martinez, 

(c. 1942)

Earthenware

Pueblo, Southwest

Two Grey Hills Tapestry Weaving

Julia Jumbo

(2003)

Navajo, Southwest