Sun Guoting's Treatise on Calligraphy

Author: Sun Guoting (Tang Dynasty)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book includes sixteen pieces of calligraphy by Huang Tingjian, such as the "Commentary on the Avatamsaka Sutra." The "Commentary on the Avatamsaka Sutra" is on silk, with vigorous and dynamic brushwork, spanning 25.1 cm vertically and 115 cm horizontally, and is now preserved in the Shanghai Museum. The "Epitaph for Wang Changzhang" measures 30.4 cm vertically, while the "Epitaph for Shi Yizheng" (32.4 cm vertically) is combined with it into one scroll, now housed in Japan.