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Guo Xu (1456–c.1529)

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The scholar-artist Mi Fu was an eccentric of the eleventh century, and one of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty. It was well-known that he had a peculiar admiration for certain rocks. In this period, men of culture collected and placed in their gardens rare and unusual rocks from Lake Tai, which had become pitted and worn by the actions of wind and waves over many centuries. Mi Fu believed that some these rocks had their own souls and he was in the habit of paying them his respects, by bowing before them as if they were venerable old gentlemen.
— Chester Beatty Library

Date

Dated 1503

Medium

Album leaf; ink and colors on paper

Dimensions

29.8 × 49.3 cm

Collection

Shanghai Museum

	Native name	上海博物馆
	Location	Shanghai
	Coordinates	31° 13′ 49″ N, 121° 28′ 14″ E
	Established	1952
	Website	http://www.shanghaimuseum.net/en/
	Authority file	: Q1051293 VIAF: 136410010 ISNI: 000000012164898X LCCN: nr91021127 SUDOC: 099063700 J9U: 987007415649605171 WorldCat

Place of creation

China during the Ming dynasty

Notes

This is one of eleven paintings comprising an album.

‘Fuxi, the maker of men’
‘Shennong, the divine farmer’
‘Drunken immortal’
‘Immortal Qiu’
‘Seeking a suitable phrase’
‘An old lady feeds a hero’
‘Immortal Ge spitting fire’
‘Playing a flute, riding a buffalo’
‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’
‘Northern frontier’
‘The Creation of the Milky Way’

References

‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.

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‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
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