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Chinese landscapes.
Throughout China's long history, capital cities were seats of culture in which literature, calligraphy, theater, and the fine arts flourished. This was especially true of the walled city of Nanjing, in former times called Jinling (meaning gold mountain). Located on the Yangzi River in the eastern part of the country, it was the primary capital of the Ming dynasty. However, during the tumultuous transition in the seventeenth century to the Qing dynasty, Nanjing became a secondary capital.
Nanjing's artistic and literary traditions date back some sixteen hundred years, and in the seventeenth century artists and writers frequently drew upon this rich cultural legacy. Gifted landscape painters were attracted by the low pine-covered mountains, punctuated by serene rivers and frequently shrouded in mist caused by abundant rainfall. The hauntingly beautiful works created there during the seventeenth century are the subject of an exhibition on view at the China Institute Gallery in New York City from September 18 through December 20. The show includes sixty album leaves, handscrolls, and hanging scrolls, all on loan from the Nanjing Museum. Passion for the Mountains: Seventeenth-Century Landscape Paintings from the Nanjing Museum features many works never before exhibited in the United States.
Because Nanjing was home to numerous sophisticated, cultured, and affluent patrons, many painters from elsewhere in China visited or settled there, each bringing their regional style with them. Unlike other places in China, no one artistic style can be associated with the city. A group of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Chinese landscapes.