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" PAINTING AND PATRONAGE AT THE MONGOL COURT OF CHINA, 1260-1368 "
M. S. Weidner
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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127739
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TL41438
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8300702
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M. S. Weidner
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PAINTING AND PATRONAGE AT THE MONGOL COURT OF CHINA, 1260-1368\ M. S. Weidner
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University of California, Berkeley
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1982
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Ph.D.
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1982
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386
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The Mongol rulers of the Yuan dynasty became actively involved with the visual arts, and this involvement constitutes an important chapter in the history of court painting and patronage in China. Textual evidence concerning their collections and commissions is presented in the first two chapters of this dissertation. The last two chapters examine the achievements of three professional painters who served the Yuan court. The official collections are introduced through the offices responsible for their management: the Imperial Library (Mi-shu chien), the Pavilion of the Star of Literature (K'uei-chang ko) and the Pavilion for the Revelation of Literature (Hsuan-wen ko). Discussion of these offices includes consideration of the contributions of the emperors Wen-tsung and Shun-ti and officials such as K'o Chiu-ssu and K'ang-li Nao-nao. A section is also devoted to the influential collector Princess Sengge. Lists of paintings in the imperial collections and belonging to the Princess, compiled on the basis of seals, court records and literary references, indicate the nature of the Mongols' artistic inheritance and permit some assessment of their aesthetic predilictions. A brief review of the state of the arts under Qubilai's predecessors provides a background for a survey of imperial commissions from 1260 to 1368. The religious arts, portraits and various types of decorative, didactic and documentary pictures were sponsored by the court throughout this period. In citing commissions for such works, note is again taken of the styles and subjects preferred, and reasons for these preferences are proposed. The three professional artists discussed are Ho Ch'eng, Liu Kuan-tao and Wang Chen-p'eng. Ho Ch'eng and Liu Kuan-tao were active during Qubilai's reign, and were known for their figure paintings. Wang Chen-p'eng, who served Jen-tsung and Princess Sengge, was celebrated as a chieh-hua master. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI
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Communication and the arts; Fine Arts; 0357:Fine Arts
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University of California, Berkeley
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