Midterm 2

Question 1

What is this item?
What is this item made of?
How tall is this item?

Answer 1

Paekche censer
Gilt bronze
24’’ inches tall

Question 2

What is this item?
What is this item made of?
What empire is this item from?
What year is this item from?

Answer 2

Mathura Buddha
Sandstone
Kusana Empire
circa 200 CE

Question 3

What is this item?
What is this item made of?
What year is this item from?
What empire is this item from?

Answer 3

Gandhara Seated Buddha
Schist rock
circa 200 CE
Kusana Empire

Question 4

What is this item?
What is this item made of?
What year is this item from?
What empire is this item from?

Answer 4

Gandhara Bodhisattva Maitreya
Schist rock
circa 200 CE
Kusana Empire

Question 5

What is this item?
What is this item made of?
What year is this item from?
What empire and CITY is this item from?

Answer 5

Jina statue
Sandstone
c. 250 to 500
Gupta Empire and Mathura

Question 6

What is this item made out of?
What year is this item from?
Where is this item from?

Answer 6

Gilt Bronze
Dated 338
Northern China

Question 7

What is this item named?
What is this item made of?
What year is this item from?

one date

Answer 7

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
moulded brick relief from tomb
circa 400

Question 8

What is this item named?
What year is this item from?
Where is this item from? (Location and Empire)

Answer 8

Śiva mukhaliṇga
circa 401
Udayagiri Cave, Gupta Empire

Question 9

What is this item called?
What year is this item from?
Where is this located? (not country)

Answer 9

Varāha, avatāra (avatar) of Viṣṇu
c. 401
Udayagiri Cave

Question 10

What is this item made of?
how tall is this item?
What is this item?
What year is this item from?

Answer 10

silk handscroll with ink and color
10” high handscroll (inch)
Gu Kaizhi, Admonitions
(circa 344 to 406)

Question 11

What is this item?

Who made this art?
What is it made out of?
How tall is this?

Answer 11

Preface to Record of the Orchid Pavilion

Wang Xizhi
ink on paper
10”’ inches high

Question 12

What era is this item from?
What year is this item from?
What city is this item from?

Answer 12

Northern Wei dynasty
439 to 534
Dunhuang

Question 13

What is this?
What dynasty does this come from?
What year?
What city?

Answer 13

Tiger Jataka detail
Northern Wei dynasty
439 to 534
Dunhuang

Question 14

What is this item called?
What year is this item from?
What is this item made out of?
How tall is this item?
What era is this item from?

Answer 14

Vairocana
c. 460
sandstone
approx. 60’ feet high
Northern Wei dynasty, Yungang Cave

Question 15

What is this figure?
What is it made out of?
What year is it from?
What empire is it from?

Answer 15

Seated Buddha
sandstone
circa 475
Gupta Empire

Question 16

What is this item?
What year is this item from?
Where is it from?
What kind of mural is this?

Answer 16

Apsaras
c. 490
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
fresco mural

Question 17

What is this item?
Where is this item?
What year is this item from?

Answer 17

Bodhisattva Padmapāṇi (Lotus Holder)
Ajanta Cave 1 (vihāra-style)
c. 500

Question 18

What is this item?
What year is this item from?
How tall is this item?

Answer 18

Siva, Elephant Cave #1
Circa 550
20+ feet tall

Question 19

What is this building for?
What is this building called?

Answer 19

Ise Inner Shrine
cypress and thatch building

Question 20

What era is this item from?
What is this figure?
What is this figure made of?
How tall is this?
What year is this figure from?

Answer 20

Silla Kingdom
Pensive Bodhisattva
gilt bronze
37” inches high
circa 600s

Question 21

What is this figure?
What is this figure made of?
How tall is this?
What year is this figure from?
What era is this item from?

Answer 21

Bodhisattva Miroku (Maitreya)
single block of wood with lacquer
33” tall; circa 600s
Kyoto, Japan

Question 22

What is this figure?
What is this figure made of?
How tall is this?
What year/era is this figure from?

Answer 22

horse
earthenware with sancai glaze
30” inches high
Tang dynasty (618 to 907)

Question 23

Who made this painting?
Whatyears?
What is this painting titled?
What is this made of?
How tall is this?

Answer 23

Yan Liben
(circa 600 to 673)
Tang Emperor Taizong Tibetan Envoy
silk handscroll
20” high

Question 24

What is this?

Who made this?

What year is this figure from?

What city is this in?

Answer 24

Fengxian Temple

sponsored by Tang dynasty empress Wu Zetian

672 to 675
Longmen

Question 25

What is this? Who made this? What is this made of? How tall is it? What dynasty is this from?

Answer 25

Night Shining White Han Gan (706 to 783) section of paper handscroll 12" inches tall Tang dynasty

Question 26

What is this? Who is it for? What year is this figure from?

Answer 26

Ellora Cave Temple Dedicated to Siva c. 760

Question 27

What city is this in? What is this? What year is this figure from? What era is this item from?

Answer 27

Borobudur Mandala Completed 830 Java Indonesia

Question 28

Name? Material? Length? Year( singular )?

Answer 28

The diamond sutra woodblock ink paper 10 inches high 868

Question 29

What is this? Whats it made of? How wide is it? where is it located/name of the location? What year is it from?

Answer 29

tea turtle gilt silver 12" wide Famen Temple "Earth Palace" in 873

Question 30

Item? Year/Period? Name? City?

Answer 30

Vajra-Realm and Garbha-Realm Esoteric Buddhist Painted Maṇḍalas circa 899, Heian Period (794 to 893) capital in Kyoto)

Question 31

Item? Year? Made out of? City?

Answer 31

Vajradhātu ("Vajra-realm") Maṇḍala pigment on silk Dunhuang cira 900

Question 32

Item? Year? Made out of? Length? Period?

Answer 32

Esoteric Buddhist icon circa 1000 Gold 7 Inches high '' Butuan period

Question 33

Artist? Item? Year? Made out of? Length?

Answer 33

Artist: Guo Xi Item: Early Spring Year: 1072 Made out of: ink on silk Length: 5' 2" high

Question 34

Artist/Year? Item? Made out of? Length?

Answer 34

Wen Tong (1018-1079) Bamboo ink on silk 52" inches high

Question 35

Artist/Year? Made out of? Length?

Answer 35

Mi Fu (1051 to 1107) ink and color on paper 14" inches high

Question 36

Who made this? What year? What is this? What's it made out of? How tall is it?

Answer 36

Song Emperor Huizong (1082 to 1135) model poetry handscroll, ink on silk 27'' inches high

Question 37

Who made this? What year? Name? Made of?

Answer 37

court of Song Emperor Huizong (1082 to 1135) Auspicious Cranes handscroll, ink and color on silk

Question 38

Name? Item? Country? Empire?

Answer 38

Angkor Wat Visnu temple Cambodia Khmer Empire c. 1150