id:			160736
accession number:	1998.78.4
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.4
updated:		2023-09-27 18:03:38.234000

Eighteen Views of Huzhou: Mt. Biyan (Green Cliff), c. 1588. Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1998.78.4

title:				Mt. Biyan (Green Cliff)
title in original language:	壁巖山
series:				Eighteen Views of Huzhou
series in original language:	湖州十八景圖
creation date:			c. 1588
creation date earliest:		1583
creation date latest:		1593
current location:		003 Special Exhibition Hall
creditline:			The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)  - artist
Song Xu (宋旭, 1525–c. 1606), was a versatile Chinese painter active in northern Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. He was skilled in landscapes, boundary paintings (界畫, paintings of architecture), figure painting, and Buddhist painting. Although born a commoner, he also cultivated the literati arts of poetry and calligraphy. He studied Chan Buddhism and eventually became a Buddhist priest himself.
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measurements: Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	碧巖山：山多古木，寺藏其中。今為人侵伐殆盡，遂成荒廢，遊者鮮矣。然嶺崖飛瀑，不減清致。
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan)
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1998
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1998–
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wall description:
Green Cliff Mountain used to have a primeval forest, with a temple hidden within it. Now, those primeval forests have been wantonly and completely cut down. Consequently, with its devastated look, few travelers are coming. Still, with its peaks, cliffs, waterfall, there is no lack of scenic beauty.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 287-295
	url:		

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IMAGES

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