This article explores a mysterious but well-studied pictorial subject in Chinese visual art, namely the half-open door. The scene often shows a female figure standing in or emerging from the middle of two door-leaves, suggesting a path or an access to a certain space and also indicating a view incompatible with what the viewer has already seen. This pictorial theme frequently adorns stone sarcophagi and tomb walls in northern China from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. By examining the forms and meanings of the motif, this study attempts to demonstrate the ways in which the half-open door was employed in funerary art and helped people to visualize prevailing ideas about the afterlife.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
59-91
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
20/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
funerary art
اصطلاح موضوعی
half-open door
اصطلاح موضوعی
heavenly worlds
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
northern China
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Song and Jin periods
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