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One of the most magnificent and enduring themes in Chinese painting history can be found depicted in Daoist temples from the local village up to the very capital, viz., the paintings of the Heavenly Court (chaoyuan tu). Surprisingly, its images have remained largely unstudied in Western scholarship. Drawing on a comparative study of four complete sets of wall paintings dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (the oldest examples), and their related images, painting criticism, stel

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Author

Lennert Gesterkamp

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283039253

Category

art

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25