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DOI chapter:Ning, Yao: Propagating the Confucian Virtues: Chinese Artists in Serialized Printed Portrait Books
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Yao Ning
Fig. 11: Image from Song nianzhu guicheng
(Method of Reciting the Rosary),
woodblock print, 1619, Gaspar Ferreira and
Joao da Rocha, Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles
Fig. 12: RESVRRECTIO CHRISTI GLORIOSA,
Fig. 134, in: Jeronimo Nadal, et al.: Evan-
gelicae Historiae Imagines. Ex ordine Euan-
geliorum, quae toto anno in Missae Sacrificio
recitantur, In ordinem temporis vitae Christi
digestae, Antwerp 1593, Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles
character in the novel Shui huzhuan (WaterMargin), written in the fourteenth
century by Shi Nai'an (fa Wf (1296-1372).44 This print is part of a set of forty printed
playing cards, shui huye zi (Water Margin Leaves), depicted and designed
by Chen Hongshou between 1620 and 1652, that were used in popular drinking
games. The four characters on the bottom right provide an instruction:
those who have tattoos should empty their cups of wine.
Stimulated by Western art, the aesthetics and naturalistic representation of the
Song period came alive. On the hanging scroll Magpies and Hare U by Song court
painter Cui Bai (active in the second half of the eleventh century), two magpies
- one in the sky and the other on a branch - are depicted flying in the direction of a
hare (Fig. 10). The hare turns his head towards them - possibly astonished by the
noises the birds are making. The wind can be sensed from the movement of grass and
leaves. Realistic representation and the aesthetics of demonstrating transitory
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Fig. 11: Image from Song nianzhu guicheng
(Method of Reciting the Rosary),
woodblock print, 1619, Gaspar Ferreira and
Joao da Rocha, Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles
Fig. 12: RESVRRECTIO CHRISTI GLORIOSA,
Fig. 134, in: Jeronimo Nadal, et al.: Evan-
gelicae Historiae Imagines. Ex ordine Euan-
geliorum, quae toto anno in Missae Sacrificio
recitantur, In ordinem temporis vitae Christi
digestae, Antwerp 1593, Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles
character in the novel Shui huzhuan (WaterMargin), written in the fourteenth
century by Shi Nai'an (fa Wf (1296-1372).44 This print is part of a set of forty printed
playing cards, shui huye zi (Water Margin Leaves), depicted and designed
by Chen Hongshou between 1620 and 1652, that were used in popular drinking
games. The four characters on the bottom right provide an instruction:
those who have tattoos should empty their cups of wine.
Stimulated by Western art, the aesthetics and naturalistic representation of the
Song period came alive. On the hanging scroll Magpies and Hare U by Song court
painter Cui Bai (active in the second half of the eleventh century), two magpies
- one in the sky and the other on a branch - are depicted flying in the direction of a
hare (Fig. 10). The hare turns his head towards them - possibly astonished by the
noises the birds are making. The wind can be sensed from the movement of grass and
leaves. Realistic representation and the aesthetics of demonstrating transitory
28