https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nsong/hd_nsong.htm
(Read the text lower down on the page and then click on the images at the top of the page and read the descriptions.)
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/court-and-cosmos
(Read the Exhibition Overview. Scroll down the page and click on the link to the Exhibition Galleries. At the Exhibition Galleries page, click on a least three of the topic areas. In each topic area click on the images there to learn more about them.)
Please answer the following questions:
How does the art express the values of the time and place in which it was made?
What piece do you think is particularly representative of its time and place? Pick one piece for the Northern Song Dynasty and one piece for the Seljuq era. Why do you think that piece is particularly representative of its time and place?
Please limit your answers to both questions to 500 words to start.
