This is our resource page for the Special Exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
Exhibition runs: March 4, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Stop and Chat station scheduled Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 3 PM, March 9 to May 14, 2023.
Stop and Chat training video 3.7.23
Stop and Chat Eternal Offerings (1)
This show does not have labels or panels inside. Here are the three panels at the entrance to the show:
Here are the poems shown on the walls in the intro gallery:
Eternal Offerings info sheet:
Eternal Offerings Info Sheet for guides
Curator Yang Liu’s lecture on 2.16.23:
Eternal Offerings exhibition lecture
Exhibition Guide, describing the different rooms within the exhibition:
Exhibition checklist:
This is online, available at this link.
Gallery layout:
See exhibition guide for description of layout.
Didactics for the Stop and Chat:
Timeline:
Map of Bronze Age China:
Typology of bronzes and handout with information:
Vessel_Types_Diagram_45x36_ChineseTransl
Chinese Bronze Vessels with image
Stop and Chat information
Touch Props on Eternal Offerings Stop and Chat (1)
Digital resource page for the exhibition:
Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
Collection of 3D scans of Mia bronzes:
Chinese ritual bells (video provided by Yang Liu):
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi – Traditional Chinese Bells
Previous video on Mia’s Bronzes:
Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19
Information about Chinese art is posted in two locations on the guide website:
China Art Cart Manual and training (2017)
Class sessions on Chinese art from 20015/2016:
Ancient China/Japan, October 2015
Han to Tang China, January 2016
Resources shared by Mia Educators:
From Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MMA):
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm
Orientations article by Yang Liu:
Yang Liu_Eternal Offerings_03Feb23
Orientations article by Matthew Welch:
Matthew Welch_Eternal Offerings_06Feb23
From the National Museum of Asian Art:
From the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibition guide:
Three short videos on bronze casting, good animations to illustrate casting process to visitors:
Harvard Online, shows how engravings achieved: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created
Asian Art Museum, better animation showing bronze flowing in: Casting Bronze Vessels: The Piece-mold Process
Art Institute of Chicago, shows how final vessel was golden: Mirroring China’s Past: The Piece Mold Process
From Khan Academy:
Shang Dynasty, an introduction (with bronzes discussed in a couple articles)
From China.org.cn, some information on foods/drink prepared in the bronze vessels:
3,000 year old food for thought
Resources shared by guides:
From Mingjen Chen: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
From your colleague Manju Parikh, a short video on the taotie from PBS.