. International studio. ulptures men- rGURE 0™=^N BRONZE know of bells and objects of tioned in the King-ehe-so annals (Collection oj M. Peytel) ritual dating from the Chou and date back to the second century even the Shang dynasties, i. e. The representation of the human figure, as seventeen centuries B. C, which give evidence also of animals, appears to begin at the period of a high degree of perfection, and there can be commencing with the Han dynasty, starting 206 no doubt that other art forms, architecture, for B. C. and lasting four hundred years. However, example, had reached analo
. International studio. ulptures men- rGURE 0™=^N BRONZE know of bells and objects of tioned in the King-ehe-so annals (Collection oj M. Peytel) ritual dating from the Chou and date back to the second century even the Shang dynasties, i. e. The representation of the human figure, as seventeen centuries B. C, which give evidence also of animals, appears to begin at the period of a high degree of perfection, and there can be commencing with the Han dynasty, starting 206 no doubt that other art forms, architecture, for B. C. and lasting four hundred years. However, example, had reached analogous development, in all statements concerning Chinese art and its but as building was accomplished in brick and origins one cannot be too careful. There seems to stone nothing of it survives nowadays,be little doubt, however, that Chinas artisticdevelopment was already very high in earlierperiods. The treatment ol bronze in particularwould seem to be as old as China itself, for we SCULPT! Kin HOG IN STONE HAN DYNASTY.
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