Ma Lin
Illustration — Ma Lin, Quietly Listening to Wind in the Pines 靜聽松風. Ink and color on silk. National Palace Museum, Taiwan. • Illustration — The Three Taoist Officials Making an Inspection Tour 三官出巡图轴, Ink and color on silk.
Ma Lin
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- 1180
- Died
- 1256
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- Ma Lin is recorded as a citizen of China.
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- Ma Lin is recorded with the occupation painter.
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Illustration — Ma Lin, Quietly Listening to Wind in the Pines 靜聽松風. Ink and color on silk. National Palace Museum, Taiwan. • Illustration — The Three Taoist Officials Making an Inspection Tour 三官出巡图轴, Ink and color on silk.
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National Palace Museum, Taiwan. Ma Lin (c. 1180 – after 1256) was a Chinese court painter during the Song dynasty active during the early to mid 13th century. He was the son of the famous Chinese painter Ma Yuan, from whom he learned the art of painting. One of his best known paintings is Night Outing with Candles, which depicts a gentleman sitting in the doorway of a pavilion, facing four pairs of tall candles amongst flowering crab apple trees. It illustrates a poem by the famous (dissident poet and artist) Su Shi: "My fear is that in the depths of night, the flowers will fall asleep and depart, so I light the tall candles to illuminate their red beauty.". A full moon in the sky overhead confirms its nighttime setting.
Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds; Poem by Wang Wei, c. 1256, by Ma Lin
Ma Lin · The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Landscape with Flying Geese, mid-1200s, by Ma Lin
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1180
Ma Lin born.
1256
Ma Lin died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1178850587, Ma, Lin.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 142780138, Ma, Lin.
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- 1.129.
- 2.131.
- 3.Harvsp Dictionnaire Bénézit 1999 p= 81
- 4.harvsp James Cahill 1960 p=64
- 5.harvsp James Cahill 1960 p=65
- 6.harvsp James Cahill 1960 p=86
- 7.harvsp James Cahill 1960 p=87
- 8.harvsp James Cahill 1960 p=88
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Peinture chinoise et tradition lettrée. Éditions du Seuil. 1983. 2-02-006440-5.
- Trois mille ans de peinture chinoise. Éditions Philippe Picquier. 1997. 2-87730-341-1.
- Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. éditions Gründ. 9. 1999. 2-7000-3019-2.
- La peinture chinoise - Les trésors de l'Asie. éditions Albert Skira. 1960.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1178850587, Ma, Lin.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Ma Lin is classed in the genre landscape painting. Recorded as a citizen of Song dynasty. Recorded with the occupation painter.
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