The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s engaging “Recasting the Past” exhibition looks at the antiquarian spirit in China since the ...

Bronze - Late Shang dynasty ... to use the title "emperor" as Qin Shihuangdi ("First Qin Emperor") and builds first Great Wall of China, but his empire quickly collapses after his death.

The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political stakes of producing these astonishing works.

Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ... Some were painted wood with canopies, others were bronze, hitched to horses and decorated ...

Yellow Emperor is the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation ... The Yellow Emperor mined bronze from Shoushan Mountain and cast a cooking cauldron at the foot of Jingshan.

The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor worship from about 1500 B.C. through A.D. 200. “Recasting the Past ...

Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus... Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus [05.30] / Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus ...

NEW YORK — Things didn’t end well for the Chinese Song dynasty emperor Huizong ... Huizong’s efforts initiated centuries of bronze casting — basins, urns, incense burners, bells and ...