China
This vast imperial complex, built during the Ming Dynasty, was meticulously arranged along an axial plan, featuring red walls, yellow roofs, and intricate wooden carvings to symbolize imperial authority.
What is the Forbidden City?
The painting of Sin Sukju follows the artistic tradition of this Korean dynasty, during which scholars and government officials were honored through portraiture.
What is the Joseon Dynasty?
This famous woodblock print is part of a series by Katsushika Hokusai.
What is Under the Wave off Kanagawa ( THe Great Wave)?
The Sanskrit name for the third eye often on Buddhist statues?
What is Urna?
In White and Red Plum Blossoms, the artist uses this precious material as a background to create a sense of luxury and flatness.
What is gold leaf?
The name of the three primary deities in Hinduism.
Who are Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva?
The name of the man who discovered Borobudur.
Who was Sir Thomas Raffles?
These life-sized objects were created to guard the tomb of this Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
What are the terracotta soldiers.
This ceremonial crown was found in the tomb of an elite individual from this ancient Korean kingdom, known for its wealth and trade networks.
What is the Silla Kingdom?
What wooden temple in Nara, Japan holds a large bronze Buddha?
What is Todai-Ji?
The name for Buddhist teachings based on the Buddha's life?
What is sutras?
The swirling river in the painting White and Red Plum Blossoms is depicted using this stylistic technique, which flattens space and creates an abstract visual rhythm.
What is tarashikomi (wet-on-wet ink technique)?
A Hindu story about gods and demons fighting in a tug of war for the nectar of immortality.
What is the Churning of the Ocean of Milk?
The Buddha, the Law, and the monastic gathering of monks represent this for Buddhists and are on top of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
What are the 3 jewels of Buddhism?
These blue-and-white porcelain vessels, created in 1351 during the Yuan Dynasty, showcase Chinese mastery of cobalt glaze and were later influential in global ceramic trade, particularly with the Middle East.
What are the David Vases?
The gold elements of the crown reflect the influence of this powerful trade route, which connected Korea to China, Central Asia, and beyond.
What is the Silk Road?
Depicting a violent coup in 1159, this Japanese handscroll (emaki) uses dynamic diagonal lines and swift brushstrokes to heighten the tension of the chaotic samurai battle scene.
What is Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace?
Once standing as towering rock-cut sculptures in Afghanistan, these monumental figures were destroyed in 2001 due to religious and political motivations, sparking international outcry over the loss of cultural heritage.
What are the Buddhas from Bamiyan?
This Japanese work was heavily influenced by the influx of artistic materials from the West, particularly Prussian Blue paint.
What is Under the Wave off Kanagawa?
The Sanskrit name for couples embracing in physical intimacy in the Lakshmana Temple.
What is Mithuna?
The celestial king of craftsman who Tibetan Buddhists say created the Jowo Rinpoche statue.
Who is Vishvaharma?
Commissioned by an emperor to honor a deceased noblewoman, this silk funerary artifact was buried with the deceased and reflects Daoist and Confucian beliefs about the afterlife.
What is the Funeral Banner of Lady Dai?
The crown’s tree-like protrusions symbolize this sacred concept in Korean and shamanistic traditions, linking rulers to the divine.
What is the world tree or axis mundi?
In NATSP, the depiction of armored men on horseback reflects the rise of this social and military class in Japan.
What is the warrior (samurai) class?
These fierce sculptural objects are from the Kei School found in Todai-Ji
What are the Nio Gaurdians at the entrance gate?
What geographic land feature plays a prominent role in the print Under the Wave off Kanagawa?
WHat is Mt. Fuij?
The term for how Hindu temples fill every last inch of wall space with sculptures.
WHat is horror vacui?
During the Josean Dynasty, this man received the honor of sitting for a full-length silk portrait in order to commemorrate his loyalty and achievement.
Who is Sin SUkju?
This historical philosophy deeply influenced the spatial organization and function of the Forbidden City.
What is Confucianism?
The burial of the Gold and Jade Crown with the deceased suggests that the Silla rulers were associated with this belief system, which emphasized the afterlife and spiritual power.
What is shamanism?
This person painted Red and White Plum Blossoms
Who is Ogata Kōrin?
The temple with an exquisite rock and sand garden in Kyoto, Japan that reflects Zen Buddhist philosophies
What is Ryon-Ji?
The destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan was part of a larger pattern of iconoclasm carried out by this political group.
Who are the Taliban?
What the dancing Shiva is standing on in the Shiva Lord of Dance Sculpture?
What is the Demon of Ignorance?
The name and shape of the object depicted in Lady Dai's Funeral Banner that represents the heavens.
What is the Round Bi Disc?