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File:Portrait of the Goddess and the Lady of the Xiang, Wen Zhengming.jpg

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Wen Zhengming: Q116459426  wikidata:Q116459426 reasonator:Q116459426
Artist
Wen Zhengming
文徵明
(1470-1559)
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Title
Portrait of the Goddess and the Lady of the Xiang
湘君湘夫人图
Object type painting / hanging scroll Edit this at Wikidata
Genre ink and light color painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
"Painted in 1517, the twelfth year of the Zhengde reign (1506-1521), when the painter was about forty-eight years old, this scroll illustrates two songs from the Nine Songs attributed to the legendary poet Qu Yuan (ca. 340 BCE-278 BCE): "The Goddess of the Xiang” (Xiang jun) and "The Lady of the Xiang” (Xiang furen). This is Wen Zhengming's earliest surviving figure painting. In the painting, the Goddess and the Lady of the Xiang keep each other company. One walks in front, holding a feather fan and looking back. The other stands in a relaxed pose. Their flowing robes echo with relaxed and genial facial expressions. The elegant, deliberate archaic portrayal of the ladies is achieved with fine brush lines resembling long, waving loose strands of a spider's web, characteristic drapery depiction in the tradition of Gu Kaizhi (345-406). Light ink wash, and the application of vermilion and lead white pigments also help bring out the antique spirit. The background is left completely blank, highlighting the ethereal elegance in their motion. Wen also inscribed the related two poems on the upper part of the scroll in his trademark smooth and handsome calligraphic style.
According to the inscriptions by the painter and Wang Zhideng, Wen Zhengming once asked Qiu Ying (ca.1505-1552) to create a painting on this topic. Because Wen Zhengming was disappointed with Qiu's work, he painted this scroll himself. The "antique spirit” captured by Wen Zhengming is distinctively different from the aesthetic in Qiu Ying's works."
—The Palace Museum
Depicted people Xiang River goddesses Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1517
date QS:P571,+1517-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Dimensions 100.8 × 35.6 cm
The Palace Museum
Accession number
新00145958 (The Palace Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation China during the Ming dynasty
References
Source/Photographer http://jsl641124.blog.163.com/blog/static/17702514320155261411601/
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