Shi Rui
Shi Rui, courtesy name also Shi Rui, was a Chinese landscape and building painter in the early Ming dynasty. His birth and death years are unknown. He was a native of Qiantang (錢塘, modern day Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province) and was active during the Xuande era (1426–1435) up to the Jingtai era (1449–1457).
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Shi Rui, courtesy name also Shi Rui, was a Chinese landscape and building painter in the early Ming dynasty. His birth and death years are unknown. He was a native of Qiantang (錢塘, modern day Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province) and was active during the Xuande era (1426–1435) up to the Jingtai era (1449–1457).
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He served as an official at the Hall of Benevolence and Wisdom (仁智殿) • Illustration — Shi Rui, Xuan Yuan Inquires of the Dao, National Palace Museum, Taipei

Waiting for the Moon in the Mid Autumn Festival, 1400s, by Shi Rui
Shi Rui · The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
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