Essays on Scrolls

Manga and anime are two of the most defining parts of the Japanese culture that are known worldwide. Considered as Japan’s authentic forms of animation, manga and anime play a big role in propelling the Japanese culture further into worldwide recognition. Manga is defined as the Japanese comic animation or the animation that the Japanese produce in print while anime refers to the Japanese digital animation or the animation that the Japanese produce digitally through multimedia. These two distinct forms of Japanese animation have been an integral part of popular culture for years in Japan and have played ...

The Old Testament discipline studies with its supporting archaeological, philological, literary technicians and historical are composed on the edge of new times which contains both threats and promises. It states that biblical texts were given fair opportunities to talk as a witness to the reality the bible was acknowledged to describe. This text was imperiled to appropriate scrutiny obtained from the textual criticism science, syntax, morphology, criticism form, and lexicography. The advantages obtained from these researchers were not without the significant benefits garnered from external control multitudes. Archaeology was good in the vanguard setting the Old Testament scholars pace ...

Introduction

The works that the Chinese created since the Qing Dynasty marked the essence of its iconography. It gave the Chinese artists a specific place and space in world art, as they rendered subjects, materials and objects in a particular detail, and composition. The Qing Dynasty also gave rise to the portrayal of the Taoye tu that was commissioned by the Emperor Qianlong. The artwork particularly emphasized the manufacturing of the porcelain objects, but it emphasized the illustrations that were portrayed as “sequential viewed sets,” thus, it created a set of ordered visual illustrations. In light of this, it would ...

The multi-part film “From Jesus to Christ” looks at the origins of Christianity and Christianity’s early relationship with Judaism and the Roman Empire, using archaeological facts, experts in the field, historical reference and writings from the Dead Sea scrolls and both the old and new testaments. Although there were interviews with numerous scholars, it is difficult to ascertain the accuracy of the information presented since there are few primary documents of the time period. In “From Jesus to Christ”, one scholar, Dr. Cohen begins in a matter of fact manner to present what is known about Jesus’s ...

Gu Kaizhi’s Chinese narrative painting Admonitions of the Court Instructress to Palace Ladies is one of the earliest and most prominent examples of Chinese art known to historians and scholars. A product of the Jin Dynasty, Gu’s Admonitions Scroll adapts Zhang Hua’s 292 AD poetic text to illustrate the varying behaviors and attitudes which palace ladies should demonstrate during their roles in the palace. In addition to the painting’s great beauty, its authorship and status as a potential copy has been the subject of much discussion, as the scholarship surrounding this painting reflects both its ...