ARTH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Peony Pavilion, Giorgio Vasari, Chinese Garden
12 Feb 2018
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Growth of a prosperous age (prosperous suzhou-ruigong pagoda) by xu yang, Gazetteer of nanjing (one of forty woodblock prints with views of nanking, 1624) Ten bamboo studio book page: ten bamboo = art school, drawing of rock in instruction manual how to draw rocks. Landscape in the tang yin manner by wang gai, mustard seed garden manuel of. The lives of the artists by giorgio vasari: biographies of artists. Garden visits and connoisseurship: garden are way for male merchants to bond with each other, also an arena for competition (becomes cultural glue for merchant class) The peony pavilion: bridal du painting a self-portrait by huang minqi, c. 1573- Yingying reading a letter from student zhang (story of the western wing) by min. Image of jesus walking on water from bible: tells us about spread of catholicism in china even though bible was forbidden by imperial court.
