200 years after Su Shi wrote his poems, 苏轼作赋二百年后 China's Song dynasty had fallen to Mongol invaders. 宋朝被蒙古征服 The painter Wang Meng refused to serve the Mongol emperors, 画家王蒙拒绝侍奉蒙元皇帝 preferring to...
In the more intimate, private pleasures of the hand scroll, 在供个人赏玩 更为私人的手卷之中 the painted landscape evolved into something new. 山水画也有了新的发展 Hand scrolls were river-shaped journeys, 观赏手卷如同顺水...
Right in the visual centre of this beautiful painting 在这幅绝美图景的视觉中心点上 is the temple itself, 是一座山寺 and the temple is almost more important 而这座寺庙的重要性 than the whole mountain. 简直要盖过山峦...
For the Song dynasty, who finally triumphed in the year 960, 对于在公元960年获得最终胜利的宋朝而言 landscape art represented both a glimpse of a better world 山水画不仅代表了对于更美好世界的期许 and a means to unite...
Yet it's rarely a depiction of the way the world is, 然而 与其说是对世界的客观描绘 but a vision of the way we would like it to be. 风景画更多的是表达我们对世界的愿景 Sometimes it delivers a sense of harmony 有时它传达...
When your world is collapsing, 当你身边的世界正在崩塌 when everything is closing in... 当你穷途末路 ..What you want is to be somewhere else. 你想要的就是离开 Somewhere you can breathe in peace. 去一个你可以平静呼吸的...
If true, it shows how Winckelmann's legacy 如果这是真的 那便很好地证明了 can cloud our appreciation of other cultures, 温克尔曼的理念是如何蒙蔽我们赏析其他文化 even taint our understanding of the past. 甚至干扰我们...
But star of the show was a brand-new acquisition. 这场展出中的亮点是一件全新的藏品 It was the statue known as The Olmec Wrestler. 一尊叫做《奥尔梅克的摔跤手》的塑像 Its display of anatomical detail 它在人体结构细...
Winckelmann was a man who had enthused over 温克尔曼曾倾情于许多 any number of Greco-Roman bodies, 希腊罗马式的人体雕塑 but the Apollo Belvedere really tipped him over the edge. 但《观景殿的阿波罗》尤其让他神魂颠倒...
At one end, the Dying Gaul... 一边是《垂死的高卢人》 ..A figure who is said to embody the ancient virtue 据说这个人物体现了贵族 of nobility in defeat. 在战败中的高贵品格 But in this room, 但在这间屋子里 he is for...
