梦仙草堂图_The_Thatched_Hut_of_Dreaming_of_an_Immortal_唐寅_Tang_Yin.jpg
Summary
Description 梦仙草堂图 The Thatched Hut of Dreaming of an Immortal 唐寅 Tang Yin.jpg |
English:
The Thatched Hut of Dreaming of an Immortal
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Ink and color on paper H x W (image): 28.3 × 103 cm (11 1/8 × 40 9/16 in) A brilliant youth, Tang Yin achieved first place in the provincial examinations that he hoped would open a career for him as an official, but scandal ruined his chances. He instead became a professional painter who received commissions from his scholar friends. This handscroll was requested by Tang's contemporary Wang Dongyuan , who followed Daoist practices meant to encourage longevity. After a prophetic dream in which Wang Dongyuan saw an Immortal approaching him, Wang named his garden "Dreaming of an Immortal." It was common in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) for a garden proprietor to take the name of his garden, or a site within it, as a sobriquet, or secondary name. Thus, the painting is a "double image" that refers to Wang Dongyuan as a sleeping figure and, by extension, through the garden property itself. Tang Yin creatively captured the meaning of the garden's name by portraying Wang asleep with the dreamy emanation of an immortal floating in the sky. From the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art of Washington D.C. |
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Date | Ming dynasty, late 15th to early 16th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/F1939.60/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q2248916
唐寅
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