Li_Song_(painter)

Li Song (painter)

Li Song (painter)

Chinese court painter in Song Dynasty

Li Song (Chinese: 李嵩; pinyin: Lǐ Sōng; Wade–Giles: Li Sung) (active 1190–1230) was a Chinese imperial court painter in the Song Dynasty.[1]

Skeleton Fantasy Show (骷髏幻戲圖)
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Song was born in Qian Tang (錢塘 - present day Hangzhou). He was originally a carpenter by trade, but was later adopted and trained by the court painter Li Congxun (李從訓). He was known for painting human figures.[2]

View of Qiantang Tide-hand scroll - ink and color on silk, 17.4 high x 83 wide cm. Located at the Palace Museum, Beijing.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Barnhart: Page 129.
  2. [2]
    Cihai: Page 1264.

References

  • Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6
  • Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会). Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社), 1979.
  • Sung and Yuan paintings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Li Song (see list of paintings)
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