The Heavenly Court
Daoist Temple Painting in China, 1200-1400
Biographical note
Lennert Gesterkamp, Ph.D. (2008) in Chinese Art and Material Culture, Leiden University, completed a Postdoc (2010) at the Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philogy, Taipei, and is currently a Postdoc at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, doing research on Chinese landscape painting.
Readership
Highly recommended to anyone interested in Chinese art and religion.
Reviews
'Gesterkamp’s dense and intensively researched book is a thoroughgoing study of paintings of the Heavenly Court
(chaoyuan tu) in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China. (...)This book is a rich study of the complex relationship between image making and Daoist ritual.'
Kate A. Lingley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Religious Studies Review, 38,2
(chaoyuan tu) in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China. (...)This book is a rich study of the complex relationship between image making and Daoist ritual.'
Kate A. Lingley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Religious Studies Review, 38,2
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