The Art of China after 1280 A.D.

1. Know the dates for the Xia, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
2. Who was responsible for the establishment of the Yuan dynasty?
3. Characterize the acceptance of world cultural ideas of the Tang dynasty.
4. Characterize the acceptance of world cultural ideas of the Song dynasty.
5. What was the name of the largest city in the world under the Tang dynasty?
6. Throughout Chinese history, who was responsible for setting the tone of most artistic taste?
7. Who were the literati?
8. What were considered to be the three defining attributes of the cultural elite, according to the literati?
9. Why did the literati consider their works to be superior to those of the professional painters?
10. How did the literati eventually alienate themselves from the Imperial court?
11. What are the attributes of a successful landscape, as painted by a member of the literati?
12. What were the two main formats of most literati painting? Why was this?
13. According to Ni Zhan, a literati painter, who were artists supposed to consider as their main audience?
14. How were paintings from the Ming dynasty different from the literati works of Song and Yuan dynasties?
15. What type of artworks is the Ming dynasty most noted for?
16. Be able to describe some of the defining attributes of Ming porcelain.
17. What are some of the significant attributes of Chinese furniture making from the Ming dynasty?
18. What was the motivation for the creation of the Garden of the Cessation of Official Life?
19. Describe the basic layout of the Forbidden City of Bejing.
20. What's a pagoda? What was its form derived from?
21. According to Ming philosophy, what is man's relationship to nature? How is this reflected in some Ming paintings?
22. What is considered to be the key to successful Chinese character painting?