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Chinese Art
Featured Module: The Grandeur of the Qing
The Grandeur of the Qing offers a detailed visual and historical exploration of four monumental scrolls recording imperial inspection the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors in the 17th and 18th centuries. Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Madeleine Zelin, professor of modern Chinese history and director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University provided the rich scholarly commentary. We would like to extend special thanks to Maxwell Hearn through whose efforts we acquired the outstanding digital images that disitnguish this project.
The centerpiece of the Granduer of the Qing is a presentation of four monumental scrolls representing imperial inspection tours. From this page you can enter the full Web site, complete with all commentary and supporting material, or open the scrolls as separate programs to examine each painting individually. The full site is intended as a rich lesson in the art, culture and history of the period guided by the expertise of scholars.
Access to the individual scrolls is intended for classroom presentation or student study focusing on each painting as individual works of art with selected commentary to assist in following the imperial inspection tour.
The Granduer of the Qing (full Web site)
Below are direct links to each of the four scrolls
Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Three
Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Seven
Qianlong Emperor's Southern tour: Scroll Four
Qianlong Emperor's Southern tour: Scroll Six
Additional Websites:
Mount Taishan, Shandong: Watch a video showing the inscriptions on this Great Vista Peak being removed chronologically from most recent to most ancient.
Exploring Chinese Painting: A Test Module for Undergraduate Teaching
The Exploring Chinese Painting program begins with 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 by clicking on the timeline located at the bottom of the workspace. From the workspace, students may then proceed to view individual paintings in greater detail by clicking on the + icon attached to each painting.
Below are direct links to the individual paintings.
Night Revels of Han Xizai, ca. 970
Gu Hongzhong
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 11 1/4 x 132 in. (28.7 x 335.5 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Summer Mountains
Attributed to Qu Ding (active ca. 1023-1056)
Handscroll, ink and pale color on silk, 17 7/8 x 45 3/8 in. (45.4 x 115.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains
Fang Kuan (d. after 1023)
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 81 1/4 x 40 3/4 in. (206.3 x 103.3 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Early Spring, dated 1072
Guo Xi (1000-ca. 1090)
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 62 1/4 x 42 5/8 in. (158.3 x 108.1 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Streams and Mountains, Pure and Remote
Xia Gui (active ca. 1200-1240)
Hand scroll, ink and color on silk, 18 1/4 x 350 in. (46.5 x 889.1 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Wang Xizhi Watching Geese
Qian Xuan (ca. 1235-before 1307)
Handscroll, ink, color, and gold on paper, 9 1/8 x 36 1/2 in. (23.2 x 92.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Chamber Grotto at Ju-qu, after 1368
Wang Meng (ca. 1308-1385)
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 27 1/8 x 16 3/4 in. (68.7 x 42.5 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Spring Morning in the Han Palace, ca. 1540
Qiu Ying (ca. 1495-1552)
Hand scroll, ink and color on silk, 12 x 226 3/8 in. (30.6 x 574.1 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Lofty Mount Lu, dated 1467
Guo Xi (1427-1509)
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 76 1/4 x 38 5/8 in. (193.8 x 98.1 cm)
National Palace Museum, Taipei
The Sixteen Luohans, dated 1667
Shi Tao (1642-1707)
Handscroll, ink on paper, 18 1/4 x 235 5/16 in. (46.4 x 597.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image Portfolios:
Age of the Great Khan: Chinese Art under the Mongol Rule
Art in the Life of the Literati
Bronze Vessels of the Shang and Zhou Periods
Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty
Chinese Landscape Painting of the Song and Yuan Dynasties
Chinese Tomb Sculptures of the Qin and Han Dynasties
Early Buddhist Art in China (4th-6th Centuries)
Exquisite Moments: Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting in the Southern Song Art
From Bronze Age Beliefs to Confucianism and Daoism in China
Funerary Art of the Han Period
International Style of Tang Dynasty (581-907): Buddhist Art & Cosmopolitan Culture
Northern Song Monumental Landscape Painting
Terracotta Army of the First Emperor Qinshihuang
Terracotta Army of the First Emperor Qinshihuang
