Sujet
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, 1671. Creator: Fan Yi (Chinese, c. 1615-before 1688).
Légende
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, 1671. This painting records a historic event in the year AD 353. During the Spring Purification Festival on the third day of the third month in the Chinese calendar, 42 scholars gathered at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing in southeast China to compose poems and engage in a drinking contest. Wine cups were floated down a winding creek as the men sat along its banks; whenever a cup stopped, the one closest to the cup had to empty it and write a poem. At the end of the day, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi assembled 37 poems and wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering in his elegant script style. It became the most famous model for calligraphy in Chinese art history.
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Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G01_152
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
97,0Mo (4,3Mo) / 231,1cm x 10,5cm / 27296 x 1242 (300dpi)