A New Study on the Song Ink Painting A Hundred Flowers Preserved in the Imperial Palace Museum
The authorship of the Song scroll painting A Hundred Flowers,now in the Palace Museum's collection,is shrouded in uncertainty due to the absence of a signature and scant information concerning its appraisal and collection history.Issues such as the painting's authorship and whether its ending section was at some point cut off and subsequently lost still remain undetermined.Taking the painting's"plum blossom ink painting technique"as a starting point,and then combing through historical materials and pictures from the plum blossom painting school,and Song and Yuan ink paintings of flowers and plants,the author discovers the Southern Song painter Tang Zhengzhong as a possible author of the A Hundred Flowers scroll.By identifying the 64 types of flowers and plants depicted in the scroll,by determining their blooming order based on flowering periods,and by focusing on Tang Zhengzhong's connection to the"four seasons scenery"theme in floral paintings,this new analysis suggests that the ending section of the scroll may have been cut off and removed.
Song scroll painting A Hundred FlowersInk paintings of flowers and plantsTang ZhengzhongFlowering periodCut off and lost
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