Tag: Murals
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Painted Portrait Bricks, Murals, and Pottery Figurine Art of the Southern Dynasty Tomb in Xuezhuang, Dengzhou
The Southern Dynasty’s painted pictorial brick and mural tomb of Xuezhuang in Dengzhou was the first of its kind to be discovered in the history of Chinese archaeology. Although it was not looted, it was vandalized and the complete layout of the tomb chamber cannot be seen. Its artistic and archaeological value is greatly discounted. By 1992,…
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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…