Shi Tao's'Luofu Album'and Han Huang's'Luofu Ye Sheng'——Also the Landscapes Scroll and the Illustrated Mountain Annals Print Analyzed
Shi Tao believes in Taoism more than Buddhism in his later years of life with the strong yearn for Luofu Mountain and creates a number of paintings for it.The thesis contrasts his two copies of'Luofu Album'(Luófú Túcè in Chinese pinyin)respectively collected in Princeton University Museum of USA and Cologne East-Asian Art Museum of Germany with Han Huang's illustrated book of'Luofu Ye Sheng'(Luó Fú Yě Shèng),finding his two albums of pictures are based on Han Huang's work of Kangxi version referring to the poetry and the structure in composition.'Luofu Ye Sheng'is published in two versions,the first is completed in the 12th year of Chongzhen(崇祯)period of the Ming dynasty,the second is in the 40th year of Kangxi(康熙)period of the Qing dynasty.It is the flourishing publishing industry and visual culture in the 17th century that generate the printmaking of illustrated mountain annals of various styles.
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