Author : Neville Agnew
Release : 1997-06-19
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road by : Neville Agnew
Download or read book Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road written by Neville Agnew. This book was released on 1997-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Mogao grottoes, a World Heritage Site near Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, generations of Buddhist monks created hundreds of rock temples. Nearly five hundred of these grottoes remain, lined with painted clay sculptures and wall paintings that depict legends, portraits, customs, and the arts of China over a one-thousand-year period. This volume of symposium proceedings marks the culmination of the first phase of the Getty Conservation Institute’s collaborative project with the State Bureau of Culture Relics of the People’s Republic of China and the Dunhuang Academy.