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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b>Simavi, Zeynep</b> <<a href="mailto:SimaviZ@si.edu">SimaviZ@si.edu</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM<br>
Subject: Freer|Sackler Save the Date: Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look Symposium<br>
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<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">Dear colleagues,<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">Please save the dates Thursday, March 9<sup>th</sup> and Friday, March 10<sup>th</sup> for the
<i>Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look</i> symposium organized by the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Specialists have identified 150 or so authentic Goryeo Buddhist paintings worldwide. The few that bear dated inscriptions indicate that this tradition was restricted to the late
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Not made for grand temple halls, in which monumental murals were painted directly on the walls, these detailed images were intended for closer viewing in more intimate settings. Thus, modern scholars believe that these
images were produced both to aid private meditation and to symbolically guide mortal souls to paradise at death. The prevalence of Pure Land deities and visions of their paradise supports this understanding. The paintings’ visual appeal results from precise
draughtsmanship, saturated mineral pigments, extensive use of gold, and detailed designs representing woven textile patterns.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This scholarly gathering celebrates the launch of a digital catalogue titled
<i>Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look</i> that offers current scholarship on sixteen examples in US museum collections. The symposium seeks to contextualize the works culturally and art historically and offers new insight into provenance and transmission
as well as pioneering scientific studies of materials and painting and mounting techniques.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Symposium program:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing"><u>Thursday, March 9, 6.30 pm</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">Keynote Lecture followed by reception<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">Korean Cultural Center in Washington, DC<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing"><u>Friday, March 10, 9.30 am-4.30pm</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">All day symposium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m8067798671819165093msonospacing">Ripley Center Lecture Hall, Smithsonian Institution<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Detailed program and information on registration will be announced in January, 2017.
<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Papers will be presented in English, Japanese and Korean. An English-language version of all Japanese and Korean papers will be available at the Keynote and symposium.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This event is sponsored by the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. The Keynote event and opening reception are hosted by the Korean Cultural Center. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Zeynep Simavi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Program Specialist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Smithsonian Institution
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:SimaviZ@si.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1F497D">SimaviZ@si.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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