Hi, I'm
Pericles of Athens, and welcome to my gallery page of photos I have taken myself or have scanned. Many of these images are photos I took in museums. Others come from books I own or have checked out from libraries. Some are simply public domain pictures of stamps that I've uploaded. There are also a lot of pictures I've uploaded from GaryLeeTodd.com, a site managed by a professor who has given me permission to upload his photos.
The process of
sublimation of calomel, or
mercury(I) chloride, from the Essentials of the Pharmacopoeia Ranked According to Nature and Efficacy; Imperially Commissioned, 1505 AD,
Ming Dynasty, edited by Liu Wentai
T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century, by
Song Yingxing (translated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun in 1966)
"Mediums and Messages: The Wu Family Shrines and Cultural Production in Qing China," in Rethinking Recarving China's Past: Ideals, Practices and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China, by Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng
Story of
Jin Midi, ink rubbing of an Eastern Han Dynasty raised-relief from the Wu Family Shrines in Shandong province
"Pleasure Tower Model" in Recarving China's Past, by Nancy N. Steinhardt
A stone-carved pillar-gate of the 2nd century AD,
Eastern Han Dynasty, located at the Wu Family Shrine in Shandong province
"Constructing Citang in Han" in Rethinking Recarving China's Past, by Michael Nylan
Ink rubbing of a
Han Dynasty raised-relief image showing an ancestral worship hall (citang 祠堂)
The Arts of China, 900–1620, by William Watson
Two horsemen in a wintry landscape, by Liang Kai, 13th century,
Song Dynasty
Fishing on a Snowy River, by
Xu Daoning, 11th century, Song Dynasty
These following images I've uploaded were not taken in any of my own photographs, but they were published in a Chinese
Ming Dynasty encyclopedia in the year 1637, which makes them all public domain.
Hi, I'm
Pericles of Athens, and welcome to my gallery page of photos I have taken myself or have scanned. Many of these images are photos I took in museums. Others come from books I own or have checked out from libraries. Some are simply public domain pictures of stamps that I've uploaded. There are also a lot of pictures I've uploaded from GaryLeeTodd.com, a site managed by a professor who has given me permission to upload his photos.
The process of
sublimation of calomel, or
mercury(I) chloride, from the Essentials of the Pharmacopoeia Ranked According to Nature and Efficacy; Imperially Commissioned, 1505 AD,
Ming Dynasty, edited by Liu Wentai
T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century, by
Song Yingxing (translated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun in 1966)
"Mediums and Messages: The Wu Family Shrines and Cultural Production in Qing China," in Rethinking Recarving China's Past: Ideals, Practices and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China, by Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng
Story of
Jin Midi, ink rubbing of an Eastern Han Dynasty raised-relief from the Wu Family Shrines in Shandong province
"Pleasure Tower Model" in Recarving China's Past, by Nancy N. Steinhardt
A stone-carved pillar-gate of the 2nd century AD,
Eastern Han Dynasty, located at the Wu Family Shrine in Shandong province
"Constructing Citang in Han" in Rethinking Recarving China's Past, by Michael Nylan
Ink rubbing of a
Han Dynasty raised-relief image showing an ancestral worship hall (citang 祠堂)
The Arts of China, 900–1620, by William Watson
Two horsemen in a wintry landscape, by Liang Kai, 13th century,
Song Dynasty
Fishing on a Snowy River, by
Xu Daoning, 11th century, Song Dynasty
These following images I've uploaded were not taken in any of my own photographs, but they were published in a Chinese
Ming Dynasty encyclopedia in the year 1637, which makes them all public domain.