Xuanhe catalogue of paintings :
an annotated translation with introduction /
by Amy McNair.

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McNair, Amy, translator,
Language(s)
English
Published
©2019
Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2019]
Subjects
Song Hui zong, > 1082-1135 > empereur de Chine > Collections d'art.
Song Huizong, > Emperor of China, > 1082-1135.
Song Huizong, > Emperor of China, > 1082-1135 > Art collections > Catalogs.
Painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties.
Art > Private collections.
Painters.
Painting, Chinese.
Peintres > Chine > Histoire > 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) > Biographies > Sources.
Peinture chinoise > 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan) > Sources.
Peintres > Chine > Biographies > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Painters > China > History > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 > Biography > Sources.
Painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 > Sources.
Painters > China > Biography > Early works to 1800.
Painting, Chinese > Catalogs > Early works to 1800.
China.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Sources.
History.
Catalogs.
Early works.
Biographies.
Biography
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."--
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viii, 465 pages ; 24 cm
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1939161932
9781939161932
1939161037
9781939161031
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