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DiaporamaFamous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)
1670
28.0 x 354.0 cm
Kano Tan’yū studied prodigious numbers of works from the history of both Chinese and Japanese painting. The fruit of his study was a vast corpus of pattern books and drawings of works of art. This set of two scrolls is filled with an assortment of copies, studies, and sketches.The first scroll is unrolled to a section showing a study of a painting by Mu Qi, a Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk-painter of the Southern Song dynasty. The second scroll is open to a sketch of the Buddhist figure Hotei after a work by Kano Motonobu (1476–1559).
kano tan'yū (1602 – 1674)
Explore the art of Kanō Tan'yū (1602-1674), a leading Kanō school painter of the Tokugawa period. Discover his large-scale castle commissions, Momoyama style screens featuring tigers & natural themes, and influential ink paintings. A master collector
About this artwork
- Title: Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)
- Artist: kano tan'yū
- Year: 1670
- Original dimensions: 28.0 x 354.0 cm
- Format: Panoramic
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color intensity: Vivid
- Perceived brightness: brilliant
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