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Image: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove 1.Nanjing Museum

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Description: Molded-brick mural, identified as the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi", one of two walls apart of the coffin found in a tomb of the capital region of the Southern dynasties (5th-6th. c.), second half of the fifth century, at Xishanqiao, near Nanjing. 88 x 240 cm. Nanjing Museum. This part of the murals may reflect a composition of the famous Lu Tanwei, considered as the single greatest painter of all times by the chinese critic Xi He (act. 500-536) : ref. from China : Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press 2004. We can recognize Ji Kang (223-262), on the left, under a gingko tree.
Title: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove 1.Nanjing Museum
Credit: own work (assembling from [1] and [2], two Gary Lee Todd photographs, with Photoshop)
Author: Prof. Gary Lee Todd
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