Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. paintings (visual works)
8. [paintings by subject type]

Narrower term/s

• yǐngzuò mùgòu

Anotations

Scope note:

Seen in the Yingzao fashi (1103 CE), specifically in the text (Chapter 14) and plates (Chapter 34) concerning the polychrome painting works (caihuazuo 彩畫作), yingzuo refers to images of bracket-blocks (sometimes emerging from painted lotus blossoms) with a “neck” and two “feet” (sometimes decorated with floral motifs), painted on the wall surface above the forehead tie beams (eshangbi 額上壁 or gongyanbi 栱眼壁).In current art historical and archaeological scholarship, the term has a broader meaning that described in the Yingzao fashi, and is often used to describe painted representations of timber-framed architecture, such as that found in tombs, cave temples, and reliquary chambers.