Xian'e Changchun Album - Cherry Apple & Magnolia
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Title
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Xian'e Changchun Album - Cherry Apple & Magnolia
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Description
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This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the imperial gardens, and all of them appear to have been meticulously arranged. The placement of the main and subsidiary subjects is also rendered perfectly and the coloring gorgeous, making this work a masterpiece synthesizing the best of Chinese and Western painting traditions. Selected for exhibit here are the fourth leaf on the subject of crab apple and magnolia blossoms along with the sixth leaf rendering yellow rose and bleeding heart blossoms. The signature on this album done in Sung-script style suggests it was done by Giuseppe Castiglione sometime between his arrival in China around 1715 and the early Ch’ien-lung reign (1736-1795).
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Creator
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Castiglione, Giuseppe
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Subject
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Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, flower
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Publisher
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National Palace Museum
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Date Created
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between 1722 and 1735
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Type
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painting
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Format
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album leaf, ink and colors on silk, height: 33.3 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.8 cm (10.9 in)
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Identifier
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故畫00122200004
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Language
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Chinese
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Rights
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NO COPYRIGHT, open data, the National Palace Museum has released images in the "Collection Database" and "Selected Image Downloads" sections for free and unlimited use.
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