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Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings

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Enlarge 明 吳彬 十六羅漢圖 卷
Wu Bin (active ca. 1583–1626)
The Sixteen Luohans, dated 1591
Handscroll; ink and color on paper; 12 5/8 in. x 13 ft. 7 in. (32 x 414.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Edward Elliott Family Collection, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1986 (1986.266.4)

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This large, cursive-script frontispiece to a 1591 painting of Luohans by Wu Bin (active ca. 1583–1626) is by the high official and noted calligrapher Mi Wanzhong, who was one of Wu's principal patrons in Beijing. Mi's laudatory text proclaims, "Luohans made manifest."
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