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Author McNair, Amy.

Title Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings / Amy McNair

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 466 pages)
Summary Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution.
Contents Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Terminology from the Lists of Paintings -- Translation Notes -- Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject Peintres -- Chine -- Histoire -- 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) -- Biographies -- Sources.
Peinture chinoise -- 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) -- Sources.
Painters -- China -- History -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- Biography -- Sources.
Painting, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- Sources.
Painting, Chinese -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
Peintres -- Chine -- Histoire -- 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) -- Biographies -- Sources.
Peinture chinoise -- 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) -- Sources.
Painting, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
Chronological Term 960-1368
Genre/Form Early works
History
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Other Form: Print version: McNair, Amy Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2019 9781501766725
ISBN 9781501766732
1501766732

 
    
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