Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Hanging Monastery
|
Accession Number:
|
188285
|
|
Order Title:
|
Archivision Addition Module SEVEN--6,160 images
|
|
Type of View:
|
partialView
|
|
View Title:
|
Yellow tile roof with roof charms (yan shou) once reserved for imperial use; immortal riding a fenghuang-bird followed by mythical beasts
|
|
Date of View:
|
6/5/2009
|
|
Image description:
|
Roof charms were once only allowed on official buildings of the empire. The maximum number of beasts is nine, indicating the importance of the duties performed within the building or within the courtyard protected by a gate.
|
|
Image Rights:
|
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
|
|
Source Institution:
|
Archivision, Inc.
|
|
Collection:
|
Addition Module SEVEN
|
|
Culture:
|
Chinese
|
|
Work Types:
|
Architecture; religious structures; temples
|
|
Work Types:
|
complexes; sites (locations); historic sites
|
|
Work Types:
|
Architecture; religious complexes; religious communities; monasteries (built complexes)
|
|
Preferred Title:
|
Hanging Monastery
|
|
Agent Display:
|
Unknown (Chinese)
|
|
Date:
|
rebuilt 1368-1911 (alteration)
|
|
Materials:
|
wood; polychrome glazed ceramic tile; stone; brick; paint
|
|
Technique:
|
painting and painting techniques
|
|
Measurement:
|
152.5 m2 (area)
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
Xu¿nkong S¿
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
Hanging Temple
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
¿¿¿
|
|
Locations:
|
Hunyuan, Shanxi, China
|
|
Location Type:
|
(site)
|
|
Style/Period:
|
Ming
|
|
Style/Period:
|
Northern Wei
|
|
Style/Period:
|
Qing
|
|
Classification:
|
Architecture
|