Interdisciplinary visual analysis reveals the localized adaptation of West Asian motifs in Liao Dynasty tomb murals, highlighting creative cultural integration along the Steppe Silk Roads.
Key Points
To examine how West Asian artistic elements, specifically zodiac signs and the curved-neck pipa, underwent localized adaptation within the murals of Zhang Shiqing's tomb.
Conducted image analysis on the murals within the tomb of Zhang Shiqing, an official of the Liao Dynasty.
Employed an interdisciplinary approach integrating theories from art history, geography, archaeology, and historical analysis.
West Asian motifs were assimilated through a pattern of knowledge-integration adaptation driven by Liao political-cultural dynamics, Buddhist propagation, and functional ritual demands.
Artistic adaptation materialized through visual juxtaposition, compositional fusion, and spatial recontextualization, reflecting dualistic cultural systems within the Liao Dynasty.