Dunhuang frescoes

Dublin Core

Title

Dunhuang frescoes

Subject

Immovable Culture Heritage

Description

The Dunhuang murals are located in Gansu, China, with a history of more than two thousand years. These murals exist in 552 grottoes in Dunhuang, totaling more than 50,000 square meters. The Dunhuang murals are huge in scale and exquisitely crafted. Their content mainly depicts scenes of production and labor, scenes of social life, architectural modeling, music, dance and other images of various ethnic groups in ancient times. Inspired by real life or religious stories, these murals reflect people's desire and sustenance for a better life. The drawing inspiration comes from real life or religious stories, and they all reflect people's desire and sustenance for a better life, and they are an important art treasure house. Dunhuang frescoes have high research value in history, humanities, arts and crafts.

Source

isfiveoneonezero,worldheritagelayer

Contributor

mc387

Type

Site

Identifier

363

Date Submitted

21/05/2021

Date Modified

05/21/2021 05:57:38 pm

Extent

cm x cm x cm

Spatial Coverage

current,40.27135326110588,94.55300898291173;

Europeana

Europeana Data Provider

Dunhuang frescoes

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Institutional nature

cave

Prim Media

563

Contact

mc387@st-andrews.ac.uk

Citation

“Dunhuang frescoes,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/564.

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