Xu Daoning

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Fishermen's Evening Song (detail), one of Xu Daoning's most famous paintings, located in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri

Xu Daoning (Template:Zh) (c. 970–1051/53) was a Chinese painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1279) from Chang'an (now Xi'an) or Hejian (河间 now Hebei). He started out life by selling medicine prescriptions in Kaifeng. While selling prescriptions, he also began painting nature scenes in the style of Li Cheng. After gaining popularity he took up painting murals for Chinese nobles. His most notable work is Fishermen's Evening Song (ca. 1049).

See also

• Culture of the Song Dynasty

References

• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (). Ci hai (). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (), 1979.
• Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. Template:ISBN

External links

• Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Xu Daoning (see index)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004147/http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/CollectionDatabase.cfm?id=12243&theme=china
• http://www.artnet.com/library/09/0925/T092577.asp

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