The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Hanging with Theatrical Subject

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Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

Program information

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Hanging with Theatrical Subject

Period:: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date:: 19th century
Culture:: China
Medium:: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on plain-weave wool
Dimensions:: Overall: 128 3/4 x 80 in. (327 x 203.2 cm)
Classification:: Textiles
Credit Line:: Gift of Fong Chow, 1959
Accession Number:: 59.190

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