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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, stele inscriptions, and Daoist ritual manuals, the author offers the first comprehensive study of the historical development, iconography, ritual context, methods of mural design, and the personalisations made by patrons of the four Heavenly Court paintings.

S17/0610 --- S13A/0401 --- China: Art and archaeology--Painting: frescoes and wall-paintings --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese. --- Ritual in art. --- Taoist gods in art. --- Taoist mural painting and decoration --- Taoist mural painting and decoration -- China. --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese --- Taoist gods in art --- Ritual in art --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Painting --- Mural painting and decoration, Taoist --- Mural painting and decoration --- Chinese mural painting and decoration

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S17/0550 --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- Conferences - Meetings --- Buddhist art --- Buddhist cave temples --- Cave paintings --- Cultural property --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese --- Cave-drawings --- Mural painting and decoration --- Rock paintings --- Caityagṛha --- Cave temples, Buddhist --- Cetiyaghara --- Cave temples --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Chinese mural painting and decoration --- Conservation and restoration --- Protection --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (China) --- Chʻien-fu Caves (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Ku (China) --- Mo-kao Caves (China) --- Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mogao Caves (China) --- Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Qianfu Caves (China) --- Thousand Buddhas Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Antiquities --- Buddhist temples

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Mural painting and decoration, Chinese --- Buddhist art --- Buddhist cave temples --- Cave paintings --- Cultural property --- Conservation and restoration --- Protection --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- Antiquities --- Caityagṛha --- Cave temples, Buddhist --- Cetiyaghara --- Buddhist temples --- Cave temples --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Chinese mural painting and decoration --- Cave-drawings --- Mural painting and decoration --- Rock paintings --- Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (China) --- Chʻien-fu Caves (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Ku (China) --- Mo-kao Caves (China) --- Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mogao Caves (China) --- Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Qianfu Caves (China) --- Thousand Buddhas Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Mo-kao kʻu (China)

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"The Mogao cave temples on China's fabled Silk Road constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. Founded by monks as an isolated monastery in the late fourth century, Mogao evolved into a spiritual and artistic mecca renowned throughout China and central Asia. Here, in some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert, was preserved the pageantry of one thousand years - miles of wall paintings, more than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and paper, and tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts." "Cave Temples of Mogao tells the fascinating story of this remarkable site and of nearby Dunhuang, desert gateway to China. It also describes the long-term collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute and Chinese authorities to preserve the Mogao shrines."--Jacket.

temples [buildings] --- zijderoute --- Archeology --- Dunhuang --- Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Chinese --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- S17/0510 --- S17/0210 --- S17/0230 --- S17/0550 --- China: Art and archaeology--Buddhist art: paintings --- China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Dunhuang: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- Buddhist art --- Buddhist mural painting and decoration --- Chinese mural painting and decoration --- Mural painting and decoration --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (China) --- Chʻien-fu Caves (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Ku (China) --- Mo-kao Caves (China) --- Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mogao Caves (China) --- Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Qianfu Caves (China) --- Thousand Buddhas Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Art, Buddhist - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Art, Chinese - Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 --- 20.51 Buddhist art. --- Art bouddhique --- Art chinois --- Boeddhistische kunst. --- Buddhist art. --- Buddhist mural painting and decoration. --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese. --- Muurschilderingen. --- Tempels. --- Zijderoute. --- Tang-Five dynasties. --- 618-960. --- China --- Dunhuang Caves (China). --- Dunhuang, Grottes de (Chine). --- Mogaogrotten --- Mogaogrotten.