The Palace Museum holds Song Dynasty bird-and-flower paintings

Author: Yuan Jie
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: "Imperial Palace Collection of Song Dynasty Flower-and-Bird Paintings": A series of books on Imperial Palace knowledge. The Song Dynasty was a period of maturity and peak prosperity for Chinese flower-and-bird painting, achieving perfection in depicting objects, creating artistic conception, and brushwork techniques. According to the "Xuanhe Huazhu" (Emperor Huizong's Catalogue of Paintings), there were 6,396 recorded works in the imperial collection at the time, of which more than half were flower-and-bird paintings, demonstrating the flourishing creation of flower-and-bird paintings during the Song Dynasty and the high regard in which they were held by the imperial court. This book provides a systematic introduction and analysis of the Song Dynasty flower-and-bird paintings in the Imperial Palace collection.