Tag: Dong Rui
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The Gender of the Image: Female Tendencies in the Unmanned Stretcher Image on Stone Funerary Beds of the Eastern Wei Dynasty
The stone funerary bed of the Xie family’s tomb for Feng Senghui in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Anyang features a carving of two persons transporting an empty stretcher. A nearly identical scene appears on another funerary bed of the same period, currently housed at the Shenzhen Goldstone Museum of Art. Scholarly analysis has identified this…
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Zhao Mengfu’s Inscription on the Stele of Chan Master Yu Gong’s Virtuous Conduct and the Buddhist-Daoist Controversy in the Yuan Dynasty
The Stele of Chan Master Yu Gong’s Virtuous Conduct is preserved at the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng County, Henan Province. This stele, written by Zhao Mengfu under an imperial commission during the Yuan Dynasty, holds significant calligraphic value. Zhao Mengfu, a devout Buddhist, had profound interactions with prominent monks, and his inscription for Chan Master Yu Gong reflects his…
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Spatial and Temporal Narrativity of Pottery Figurines from the Northern Dynasties
Dong Rui DOI: 10.64212/QCHN5510 Abstract In the large and medium-sized tombs of the Northern Dynasties, pottery figurines were very popular funerary objects, and they can be roughly categorized into tomb-guarding figurines, ceremonial figurines, and household figurines according to their functions. The pottery figurines are not a reflection of the tomb owner’s life, but rather create…
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The Intertextuality Between Han Great Rhapsody and Hunting Images in the Han Dynasty
As the most representative literary work of the Han Dynasty, Han Great Rhapsody features fictional royal gardens and forest hunting and was composed by Mei Cheng during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty. The emergence of hunting images in the Han dynasty during the reign of Emperor Wu was closely linked…
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[AF Forum 02] Dong Rui: The Intertextuality Between Han Great Rhapsody and Hunting Images in the Han
Han Great Rhapsody features fictional royal gardens and forest hunting and was composed by Mei Cheng during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty. Han hunting images appeared under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and their production was closely related to the change in political forms. The distribution of hunting images…
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Who was the “Father of Art History”?
Dong Rui DOI: 10.64212/DDUZ2892 Abstract When Gombrich first proposed the concept of the “Father of Art History” in 1977, it was a time when Western historiography was trying to get rid of the influence of Ranke’s historiography, and completely abandoned the basic viewpoints of the Annales School and turned to the new historiography. The new historiography…