SNS231 - NEW BOOK Shenzhen Nanshan Museum: DONGFANG HUIXIAO: MAIJISHAN SHIKU ZHAN. Maijishan Grottoes: The Oriental Smile. 永遠的長安 : 陝西唐代文物精華展. Beijing, 2023. 3, 317 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 29x21 cm. Boards. GBP 140.00 Catalogue of an exhibition held at Shenzhen Nanshan Museum in conjunction with the Art Institute of the Maijishan Cave Temple Complex. The caves are located near Maijishan in China's Gansu province and contain sculptures, carvings and murals dating from the Sixteen Dynasties onwards with its peak during the Northern Dynasties. The exhibits are all loaned from the Maijishan complex and include very fine Buddhist statuary from various periods with a focus on the Six Dynasties. There are also some reconstructed intact copies of (presumably damaged or removed) statuary and figurines. Also murals (and reproductions of murals) and rubbings of inscriptions on steles and reliefs. Illustrated throughout and with an informative near dual text in Chinese and English. Subjects: Sculpture Item 9 in List 211. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?s/SNS231.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |