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| Chinese Jades of the Qing Dynasty [PDF] |
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| Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
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Collector fashions during the 18th century called for jade boulders to be left in their natural shapes and carved with landscape and figural designs. Similar to paintings, these boulders represented miniature worlds that could stimulate the scholar's imagination or provide a kind of mental retreat. Lesson plan.
Go to Museum Resource: http://harn.ufl.edu/linkedfiles/k-12resource-chinesejades.pdf | |
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| Designing with Numbers |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Students will look closely at a Qing dynasty court robe known as a chaofu. They will learn about the beliefs in Chinese numerology and its relationship to language. After counting the symbols, they will learn why specific numbers of special images appear on the robe. Several related math problems are included.
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/learn/for-educators/teaching-china-with-the-smithsonian/les... | |
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| Diving Deeper into Buddhism – Guanyin |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Students who are already familiar with Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha, will deepen their understanding of Buddhist beliefs and artwork. They will analyze and interpret works of art that reveal how people live around the world and what they value. They will identify how works of art reflect times, places, cultures, and beliefs.
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/learn/for-educators/teaching-china-with-the-smithsonian/les... | |
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| Exploring Chinese Painting: A Test Module for Undergraduate Teaching |
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| Columbia University, Media Center for Art History
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A workspace allowing students to view and compare a group of important Chinese hand scrolls and hanging scrolls from the 10th to the 17th centuries. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/nehasian/zoomify/scrolls/swf/start.html | |
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| The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace of China) |
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| The Palace Museum, Beijing
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Provides an annotated map of the Palace with live links to images and background on each of the locations. The Imperial Palace was “the center of imperial governance and family life, the Forbidden City consists of various structures that were designed for specific functions. Each structure was built in accordance with the traditional Chinese architectural hierarchy and designed to reflect imperial power and authority.”
Go to Museum Resource: https://en.dpm.org.cn/collections/architecture/ | |
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| Imperial Silks (of the Manchu Court) |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"When the nomadic Manchu warriors overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644 and founded Ch'ing [Qing], they took over the world's largest population, greatest bureaucracy, and one of the most luxurious courts in existence. They remained, however, a clear minority... To ease an orderly political transition while guarding against total cultural assimilation, the Manchus adjusted to a Chinese style bureaucracy and adopted the Buddhist religion while simultaneously enforcing certain ethnic and cultural differences. One of the clearest distinctions made was that of court attire." An overview, plus 14 related examples of court attire from the Manchu period, all with descriptions.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/explore-collection-imperial-silk... | |
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| The Influence of East Asian Lacquer on European Furniture |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum
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When lacquered objects made in East Asia first reached Europe in about the early 16th century, they were highly prized for their flawless finish and light-reflecting qualities. Lacquer became available to European elites, along with other luxury items including silk and porcelain, once Portuguese explorers discovered a sea route to the East around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean. The flow of goods increased in the early 17th century when the Dutch and English East India Companies began to bring goods to markets in Amsterdam and London. By 1700 many European country houses and palaces contained examples of East Asian export lacquer. Asian lacquer was admired as a precious and mysterious material.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/east-asian-lacquer-influence | |
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