Chinese Religious Art by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Author:Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780739180600
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 10.7. Scene of the Ascension of the Tomb Master, engraved stone sarcophagus, Six Dynasties period, 150 cm long, Luoyang Ancient Art Gallery, Henan Province. (After Masterworks of Chinese Figure Painting 2005: 46)

Figure 10.8. Scene of the Ascension of the Tomb Master, drawing of stone sarcophagus, Six Dynasties period, 150 cm long, Luoyang Ancient Art Gallery, Henan Province. (After Masterworks of Chinese Figure Painting 2005: 47)

Other contemporary tombs display similar themes. The painted mold-impressed bricks found at Dengxian, also in Henan, attributed to the early sixth century,54 feature the Sages of Southern Mountain: surrounded by mountains, they sit in the foreground playing musical instruments. On another brick a seated, courtly gentleman plays the sheng, a wind instrument, which elicits a dancing phoenix at center and to the right a standing shaman holds a feathered fan. This theme of the ethereal nature of music echoes portrayals of the Seven Sages.

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