1. Left: Sakyamuni Buddha (late Zhau dynasty, Period of Disunity), 338, gilded bronze Right: Colossal Buddha Amitabha (Northern Wei period), (Yungang, China), c CE

2. Meditating Buddha, from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE
Meditating Buddha, from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE. Gray Schist
Shakyamuni Buddha, Zhao Dynasty, From period of Six Dynasties, 338. Gilded bronze

3. Standing Buddha (Wei dynasty), 477 CE, gilt bronze

4. Vairocana Buddha at the Longmen Caves (Tang dynasty) (Luoyang, China) , c. 670-680 CE

5. Tang dynasty/ arrival of Buddhism in China/ suppressed surface detail in the interest of monumental simplicity

6. Right: Great Wild Goose pagoda (Tang dynasty), c. 652-704 CE

7. Way of Souls leading to the Qianling tomb complex of Emperor Li Zhi (Xi’an), late seventh century CE

8. Neighing Horse (Tang dynasty), eighth to ninth centuries, glazed earthenware importance of the horse in the Tang dynasty/ allowing lead glazes to “run”(sancai)/ created for burial tombs

9. Left: Nuyong lady from the Tang dynasty Center below: Wenguan funerary figures Right below: Camel from the Tang dynasty

10. Han Kan. Night Shining White (Tang dynasty), c
Han Kan. Night Shining White (Tang dynasty), c CE, ink on paper

11. Han Huang. The Five Bullocks (Tang dynasty), ink and color on silk

12. Han Huang. Garden with Literati, 723-787 CE

13. Paradise of Amitabha (Tang dynasty) (Dunhuang, China), ninth century, wall painting Dunhuang/ Pure Sect of Buddhism/ Tang style palace architecture

16. Brightly painted beams of a Chinese monastery

17. Fan Kuan. Travelers among Mountains and Streams (Northern Song dynasty), early eleventh century, hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk Fan Kuan/ Northern Song Dynasty/ Daoism/ painting on silk/ “li” and “qi”/ humans in the vast scale of nature/ a shifting perspective/ use of mist to separate the background from the foreground/ Neo-Confucianism

18. Guo Xi. Early Spring, CE, ink on silk Guo Xi/ Daoist paradise and an interest in seasonal change/ three types of distance (high, deep, and level)/ inclusion of seals and inscriptions on paintings/ focus on intricate details and the character of each line

19. Song Huizong. Detail of Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, early twelfth century CE Song Huizong, the emperor artist/ Chinese view of copying earlier works

20. Song Huizong. The Five-Color Parakeet (Northern Song dynasty), c
Song Huizong. The Five-Color Parakeet (Northern Song dynasty), c , hanging scroll

21. Foguang Si Pagoda (Liao dynasty)(Yingxian, China), the pagoda / projecting eaves and cantilevered balconies/ the axis mundi

22. Ma Yuan. Bare Willows and Distant Mountains (Southern Song dynasty), thirteenth century CE, album leaf, ink and colors on silk Ma Yuan/ Southern Song court style/ composed on a diagonal to form the Mia/Xia style

23. Schematic version of a one corner composition by Ma Yuan, based on the On a Mountain Path in Spring