Sizhao Yi

Apr 9, 2024 | artic.edu | Dan Meyer |Sizhao Yi |Paul Jones |Violet Jaffe

We think we know them simply because we see them and hear them every day. If you live in Chicago, that means sparrows, pigeons, robins, starlings, and doves, not to mention finches, cardinals, crows, grackles, red-winged blackbirds, swallows, swifts, geese, gulls, kestrels, peregrine falcons (if you’re lucky), and many others, and that’s not taking into account migrating birds.

Jul 3, 2023 | mdpi.com | Sizhao Yi

Open AccessArticlebySizhao Yi Department of Art History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USAArts 2023, 12(4), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040137 (registering DOI)Received: 22 May 2023/Revised: 15 June 2023/Accepted: 26 June 2023/Published: 3 July 2023(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materializing Death and the Afterlife in Afro-Eurasian Art)Abstract:The Dingling Mausoleum was built as the afterlife abode of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty (r.