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Golden Age in China: Tang Dynasty China
Terminology
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/23/2010

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Blue-and-Green Landscape
Definition
A category of landscapes painted in an archaistic manner using vivid colors and stylized forms
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Guanyin
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(Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattva of mercy who serves as an attendant of Amitabha and has 33 manifestations
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Pipa
Definition
Instrument that resembles a lute
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Three Distances
Definition
Level distance (pingyuan), high distance (gaoyuan), and deep distance (shenyuan)
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Wang Wei (699-759)
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High official, poet, and painter, later regarded as the originator of literati painting and the creator of poetic landscape painting
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Wu Daozi (act. 720-760)
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The best known painter of Buddhist wall paintings in temples, credited for the invention of the dynamic "orchid leaf" line, no surviving works
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Xuanzang (602-664)
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Famous Chinese pilgrim who traveled to Central Asia and India between 629 and 645 and helped introduced esoteric Buddhism to China
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