Li Gonglin
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Li Gonglin (李公麟, 1049–1106), style name Boshi (Script error: No such module "Lang".), art name Longmian Jushi (龍眠居士, Householder of the Sleeping Dragon), was a Chinese antiquarian, painter, and politician during the Northern Song dynasty.
Biography
Born into a scholarly home near what is modern day Lu'an, Li Gonglin passed the highest level of civil service examinations at 21 and became a civil officer. He moved to serve at the capital of Kaifeng, a common path at the time. It was there that he became increasingly familiar with the literary figures of the day, both collecting and copying their works.[1]
Art
He became famous for his paintings of horses, then he turned to Buddhism and Taoism religious painting, as well as portrait and landscape painting. His painting style was attributed to the style of Gu Kaizhi and Wu Daozi. He made antiquarian contributions in the areas of copperware and Jade Seal dated between the Xia dynasty and the Zhou dynasty.[2] Li published influential catalogues on his collections. The catalogues, of which none survive, featured a line drawing of each artefact, the philological origin of any inscriptions, and a discussion of the function of the artefact based on his interpretation of received texts.[3]Template:Rp Li's work lay the foundation of Song antiquarian nomenclature and use interpretation of ancient bronze vessels. For example, his use of the term taotie based on 3rd and 4th century BCE scripture for a mask like decoration on bronze vessels, became standard vocabulary for the description of bronze vessels and is still used by scholars today.[3]Template:R/superscript
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References
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Further reading
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External links
- Li Gonglin and his painting gallery at China Online Museum
- Three handscrolls by Li Gonglin in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York
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- 1049 births
- 1106 deaths
- 11th-century Chinese historians
- 11th-century Chinese painters
- 12th-century Chinese historians
- 12th-century Chinese painters
- Buddhist artists
- Chinese antiquarians
- Historians from Anhui
- Painters from Anhui
- People from Lu'an
- Religious artists
- Song dynasty historians
- Song dynasty painters
- Song dynasty government officials
- 11th-century antiquarians
- 12th-century antiquarians