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| East Asia Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings |
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“Walking tigers and dragons depicted with water were popular visual compositions across East Asia, and for this reason, the specific origins of the Met’s paintings remain an enigma. The visual pairing of tigers and dragons has a long history in East Asia, appearing in the first hexagram, 乾 (qian), from The Book of Changes, thought to have been written during the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 B.C.). “
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| The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection |
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Online presentation of a 2000-2001 exhibition "of more than fifty-five hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and album leaves from the Elliott collection, accompanied by a nearly equal number of selections from the Metropolitan's renowned John M. Crawford Collection Jr. and private collections, constitutes the most important display of calligraphy ever assembled in the West." With images of 9 related artworks dating from the 4th to the 17th century.
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| Exoticism in the Decorative Arts |
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A discussion of the influence of non-Western arts -- the designs, forms, materials, and techniques -- on European decorative arts since the early 16th and 17th centuries. With 9 related artworks.
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| Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era |
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Discusses the construction, design, and use of carpets in Mughal India. With activities, resources, historical background, and 7 carpets from the Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection.
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| Golden Treasures: The Royal Tombs of Silla |
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A discussion of the royal tombs of the Old Silla kingdom (BCE 57-668 CE) and the "hoards of precious ornaments buried within," including jewelry and crowns and ornaments of pure gold. With 6 related objects.
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| Goryeo Celadon |
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Discusses the development of celadon ceramic production during the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). With 11 related objects. The term celadon is thought to derive from the name of the hero in a seventeenth-century French pastoral comedy. The color of the character Céladon’s robe evoked, in the minds of Europeans, the distinctive green-glazed ceramics from China, where celadon originated. Some scholars object to such an arbitrary and romanticized Western nomenclature. Yet the ambiguity of the term celadon effectively captures the myriad hues of greens and blues of this ceramic type. During the nearly five centuries of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), celadon constituted the main type of ceramics produced on the Korean peninsula.
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| The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People's Republic of China |
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"Nearly 4,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese made a discovery that would determine the course of their history and culture for two millennia—the alloy of tin and copper known as bronze. Bronze was used for tools and weapons and even musical instruments, but the Great Bronze Age of China has come down to us mainly in the ritual vessels that symbolized power and prestige for China's first three dynasties: the Xia, the Shang, and the Zhou." This page contains the publication that accompanied the "Great Bronze Age Exhibition." See also AFE's Teacher's Guide to the Exhibition.
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| Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan |
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition that "explores how Chinese pictorial themes—Buddhist iconography, landscape imagery, flower and bird subjects, and figural narratives—were selectively adopted and reinterpreted by native artists in Korea and Japan." With images of 16 related artworks dating from the 10th to the 18th century.
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