GGM085 Yang Danxia ed: GUGONG SHUHUA GUAN: DI ER BIAN. The Calligraphy and Painting Gallery of the Palace Museum Part II. 故宮書畫館 第二編 。 楊丹霞 主編. Beijing, 2008. 219 pp. Colour plates throughout and 1 b/w plate. Map. 2 foldouts. 29x22 cm. Wrappers. GBP 70.00 Catalogue of the second part of an ongoing series of exhibitions held in the Wuyingdian exhibition hall in the Forbidden City in Beijing showing highlights of Chinese painting and calligraphy from across the ages in the Gugong Museum's holdings, from the earliest examples through to the early 20th century. This second exhibition showed 69 works including 13 works dating from the Northern Song to the Yuan, 22 Ming dynasty and 34 Qing dynasty masterpieces. All illustrated in fine colour and described. Forewords and list of plates with brief but decent descriptions in English. Main text in Chinese. Out-of-print. Subjects: Calligraphy Painting Item 680 in List 211. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?y/GGM085.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |