Why Did Art Flourish During The Tang Dynasty? | Raiders Of The Lost Art 

Really love seeing more of non-Western art history as well - fascinating

China has such a rich and amazing history. Their art and architecture are equally exquisite! Thank you for imparting this ✌🏻 Hopefully, I get to visit China one day. - 🗽

I am a huge fan of Waldemar's productions and manner to bring art so very close and in such an entertaining manner. DANKESCHÖN, MERCI, TAK, GRACIAS, THANK YOU Waldemar

I love all your videos. Thank you ever soooo much. 🇨🇦

Love this. Incredible free knowledge. Thank you.

Beautiful and fascinating, what a great Dynasty

Watching this episode as a Xianese when this once beautiful city is under lockdown…….mixed feelings

Love Chinese history

Juet read The History of Salt that begins in 8000 BC China. and how salt was a main economic generator for trade routes like the Silk Road. This is a wonderfully made production.

I finally get to hear Valdemar pronounce his surname. Thanks.

Wow! Fascinating, thank you so much.

We need a whole episode on Wu Zetian. I read she is one of the most misunderstood personalities in Chinese history.

Thanks!

Magnificent!

Thank you again Waldy!!!

It's 2022. .Ive stopped adkibg WHEN art began to flourish...I just pray it continues to do so....WHEREVER it finds itself😎❤

Wonderful archeological finds.

Waldy! Love you, dude!

I love this channel, thank you!

Love it! 💖

the delicious orange flavour drink is their lasting legacy !

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I've been to Xian, but of course, being a western tourist, there was little time to explore the First emperor's wonderful terra-cotta army, let alone understand the significance of the Tang, or the Han, or even the Silk Road to the city. Mind you, standing on the walls near the Southern gate it was fairly obvious that there had been a lot of alterations over the centuries; unless they were able to predict the development of six lane dual carriageways. I wish I'd seen this before I went, super interesting, and full of stuff I need to look into more closely!

how is it that this just came out yesterday? I deff just watched this entire video last week I'm so confused??? was this video reuploaded?

I have seen a clip on RU-vid of western tourists in Xi An a few years ago. They went around the city dressed up in ancient Chinese costumes. It really lives up to its name because of the ancient Silk Road. During the Western Han, Sui and Tang dynasties imperial families had very mixed blood because of peace marriages. Even Emperor Gao Zong was only 25% Han Chinese.

Editor, please consider turning down music. Hard to hear sometimes.

Art history is so interesting as this series- Perspective- would be too if only they had decent presenters.

Recently I clicked on a video called "the greatest pianist" about Liszt. On your channel here. Curiously, I was told that the video was not made available by the uploader to be watched in my country. Is Canada on your blacklist for some reason? 1: I can not see this video listed in your video list anywhere. 2: why is youtube even recommending videos to me that it doesn't have the right to show me? What is going on with this channel - or even this website?

When you have well developed economy, average citizens can earn a living, when they work hard and above all the rulers are open minded and welcomes highly skilled craftsmen and scholars from different countries, than such magnificent civilizations can rise…

Interesting, but not what the title promised. I was hoping for a more explicit discussion of the why, not just the what - for example, within the larger context of Chinese art history.

But this video was already posted earlier on this channel.

which emperor would take a second hand concubine ???

事實上唐朝皇室是漢人政權，唐太宗李世民的祖上是老子李耳（漢人），唐朝初期时有名影響力很大的和尚妄稱唐朝皇室祖先是鮮卑，結果唐太宗聽到後大怒，隨後就下令派人把那名造謠唐太宗祖上血統的和尚關去了牢獄。但不可否認的是，唐朝皇室的母系確實有一點鮮卑血統，但唐朝皇室一直以來都是以漢人的身份自居的。自從北魏孝文帝執行漢化政策以來，到了隋唐時鮮卑人基本早已被徹底漢化了。 So Stop saying "they were Turkic", which is quite misleading and unreal.

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Wasn't the Tang capital Chang'an? It may be located in Xi'an, but it was called differently.

I watched this with much expectations because of the title..jes wondering if it's not a click bait? or.........

Wu Zetian, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria . . . funny how the eras of greatest flourishing were under woman rulers.

Within the Tang imperial family, the mother line had some blood of Xianbei ethnics, which is undeniable. As the went by, the majority of Xianbei People were sinicized and became a part of Han Chinese during North Wei, Sui, and Tang Dynasty, and they disappeared in the history in the end. Stop saying "they were Turkic", which is quite misleading and unreal.

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It is a joke mixing photo of Qing dynasty emperor with Tang Dynasty!!!!!

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16:56 who is this guy?清高宗乾隆？

Op zich maakt het mij niets uit waar hij is geboren desnoods Timboektoe zijn naam is Kuifje 😅

What an odd way of describing it. 300 years of civil war? You mean 300 years of war. These were all different countries with differing cultures that often spoke different languages or dialects.

喜歡這不是商業目的就是簡單的分享一下囉囉嗦，我是一個才疏鬆淺的同學，也不花錢的，一起來分享一下囉囉囉嗦啦

Very good and beautiful artistic heritage. The ending is incorrect however. Today Xi Jinping is NOT a dynasty and we do not know how history will judge this period. In fact, Chinese artists today imitate Western art traditions; and government is authoritarianism which experts believe is bad.

Big fan of the Poon Tang Dynasty.

It could have been women who painted them!!!

I'm disappointed that this doc was only presented by Waldemar Januszczak. Even if East Asian art isn't his "wheel house", I believe Januszczak could have put together a superior presentation through consulting other Eastern art history experts. The actual narrator has both a tedious voice and even more boring text, to give a rather weak presentation of this astonishing brilliant artistic period of the longest continuous civilization in human history.

The status of women depicted on the murals and wall paintings, which show the aristocrats, nobility, rich and powerful or the emperor's courtesans and ladies in waiting of the imperial court doesn't tell us ANYTHING about status of women in the remaining population. The fates and rights and life possibilities of the former and the latter used to be, more often than not, as different as night and day all around the world at all times and historical periods. Drawing conclusions from what we see in those images and applying them to the ordinary women is like taking the example of i.e. Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Princess Kate or Angela Merkel and assuming Indian peasants, African herders, Chinese sweatshop workers, Philippino maids in UAE or Afghan child brides enjoy the same degree of freedom, the same amount of rights and privileges as them. And another difference being, that the high-status Tang or other dynasty's women was acquired by them solely on the right of birth or the reflexion of the status of their fathers, husbands or owners who kept them as courtesans, while any talents or abilities of those womens might have been gifted with remained ignored, unused or even thwarted in order to not allow them to threaten the delicate pride and self-confidence of men fearing of discovering any woman to be better than them at something. Unlike the talents of men who were allowed and encouraged to develop and put them to use and to advance their careers thanks to their competences, no matter in what social caste they were born.

They were Turkish Nomads, who changed and civilised Chinese then...

The Tang were TURKIC ??

the english pronunciation of the two chinese "talking heads" is world- beating...