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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0002148
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aahi0002148
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Work Title (display):
Qixia Monastery: Pagoda
Image Title:
Total from elevated position
Work Description:
Qixia Temple was originally built around 489 during the Southern Qi Dynasty. The present halls were built in modern times. The pagoda behind the temple was used as a reliquary. Records indicate that the pagoda was built in the Sui Dynasty (ca. 601) and that it received significant restoration and modifications during the tenth century. As a result of these modifications, sources sometimes claim that it represents a Southern Tang (tenth century) building style.
Work Dates (display):
ca. 601
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2005-04-08
Work Creator (display):
unknown Sui
Work Creator gender:
unknown
work_creator_or_agent_gender
unknown
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
Refers to a Chinese dynasty of the period 589 to 618 CE. During this time northern and southern China were reunited after centuries of separation. Although a relatively brief dynastic period, it was a time of noteworthy economic, political, and educational innovation. A prosperous trade with Central Asia and the West developed during this period. Innovation also occured in the fields of engineering and architecture, as seen in the works of the engineer Li Chun and the architect Kai Yuwen, who both worked under the emperor Wendi (reigned 581-604). Li Chun was responsible for the world's oldest open-spandrel stone arch bridge, the Anji bridge, and Kai Yuwen laid out the city of Daxing, which became the world's largest and most populous city of its day. The Sui were ardent Buddhists and much of their stone sculpture, unlike their bronze, wood, and lacquer work, survives; they also repaired many older Buddhist images. Sui sculpture is considered technically fine but lacking in some of the elegance found in the best Northern Qi sculpture. Sui ceramics are well modelled and relatively plain. Sui celadons, some decorated with stamped patterns, have been unearthed in both northern and southern China. Many stoneware and earthenware figurines of warriors, officials, and guardian creatures were created, especially for use as funerary objects. Earthenware models of such everyday objects as stoves and shoes were included in tombs for use in the afterlife. Costly military failures, natural disasters, and an autocratic and extravagant rule led to the decline of the Sui dynasty, which was succeeded by the Tang dynasty. (AAT)
Work Style Period:
Sui
work_styleperiod
Sui
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
6th century
work_styleperiod
6th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
meditation
subject
meditation
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Buddhism
subject
Buddhism
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
pagodas (buildings)
work_type
pagodas (buildings)
Work Worktype
false
Work Worktype:
architecture (object genre)
work_type
architecture (object genre)
Work Worktype
false
Work Category (VRC classification):
architecture
work_category__ucbaahvrc_classification_
architecture
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
stone
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Nanjing, China
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Saskia, Ltd.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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