Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art, 2010 - 248 頁 In addition to detailed individual discussions of fifty masterpieces---a heterogeneous group including portable shrines carved in wood, elegant bronze icons, monumental stone representations, colorful glazed-ceramic figures, and more---the catalogue presents a ground-breaking survey of the methods used in crafting the sculptures. A second introductory essay and several technical appendices address the question of how early Chinese bronzes, as opposed to those from Gandhara and other westerly regions, were cast; the construction methods used for wood sculptures in China, notably different from those used in Japan; the complex layers of color and gilding on works in all media and their possible significance; and the role of consecratory deposits in wood and metal sculptures. A final appendix publishes the results of an intensive analysis of the wood material in the collection, classifying every sculpture by the genus of its wood and including a section of photomicrographs of each wood sample---an invaluable resource for researchers continuing to study works of this genre. -- |
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alloy altarpiece Amitabha arhats Asia Asian Avalokiteshvara base Beijing bodhisattva Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara bronze Buddha Buddha Maitreya Buddhist art Buddhist sculpture carved catalogue Central century C.E. China Chinese Buddhist color consecratory copper core decorated drapery Dunhuang early eighth century example FIGURE foxglove front garment Gift gilding guardians hair halo head Hebei Henan Province historical Buddha identified imagery images Indian inscription known lacquer larger altar layers legs Limestone lost-wax cast lost-wax method Luoyang Maitreya mandorla Manjushri metal Metropolitan Museum Ming mold monks Museum of Art nd nd Northern Wei dynasty original painted piece piece-mold pigment Priest PROVENANCE Pure Land Qing RADIOCARBON DATE red lead Rogers Fund sculp sculpture seated Buddha Shakyamuni Shanxi Province shawl single-woodblock construction Sirén sixth century stele stone style Sutra Tang dynasty TECHNICAL NOTES Tibetan tion traces of pigment traditions Trubner stele ture Vairocana vermilion wood sculptures Yungang Yunnan