Fu-lin dances in medieval Chinese art - Byzantine or imaginary?

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Liveri, A. (2019). Fu-lin dances in medieval Chinese art - Byzantine or imaginary?, (56), 69-94. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881956069L
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Title

Fu-lin dances in medieval Chinese art - Byzantine or imaginary?

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Author

Angeliki, Liveri

Journal

Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta

Volume
Issue

56

Start page

69

End page

94

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881956069L

Date

2019-2020/03/14/00:55:04

Abstract

Chinese artists, active from the Tang dynasty to Northern Song dynasty, created famous paintings including Fu-lin musical and dancing scenes; as e. g. Yan Liben, Wu Daozi and Li Gonglin. The most of these works are unfortunately lost; thus, we have information only from written descriptions to reconstruct them. Some researchers identify Fu-lin with the Byzantines; others disagree with this interpretation. Therefore, it is worthwhile to study whether the musical and dance motifs that referred to Fu-lin and were used by the above mentioned Chinese artists and literati can be identified with Byzantine elements and their performers with Byzantines ones.

Keywords

art, dance, China, Fu-lin