AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1977.172
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Wen Zhengming
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1470 - 1559
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Wen Zhengming
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Title:
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Listening to the Bamboo
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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late 1400s-1500s
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Creation Start Date:
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1500
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Creation End Date:
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1559
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Materials and Techniques:
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hanging scroll, ink on Sung sutra paper
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 94.5cm x 30.5cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1977.172
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Credit Line:
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Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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Inscriptions:
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Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals on separate sheet of paper above painting:In the empty studio sitting in deep loneliness;Like cool sound sending pure beauty,Or pendants swinging in the wind,Or a solitary ch'in suggesting running water.Where is that sound from?The green poles in the courtyard,Clear and light like an echo,The sound and ears are in tune.The sound of bamboo now very beautiful;My ears are also clear.Who says the sound is in the bamboo?To know it depends on oneself.A noble person is like a tall bamboo;A thin bamboo is like the noble man.When the sound enters, the mind responds,Only one thing but artificially separated.A bystander searching for the sound,But the sound can only be found in silence.Otherwise I am still I,Bamboo is still bamboo.Even if I live with bamboo every day,Still the music will be a thousand miles away.Look at sound's most primeval source:Did it enter a zither or a lute? Composing a poem on Listening to the Bamboo. Written by Cheng-ming at the T'ing-yün kuan. Wen Cheng-ming [2 seals] Wen Cheng-ming yin; Wei keng-yin wu i chiang. [ 2 seals on middle right edge of painting] Wen Cheng-ming yin; Wei keng-yin wu i chiang.trans. LYSL/WKH7 additional seals: 5 of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (r. 173695); 2 unidentified.
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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(Jean-Peirre Dubosc)
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1977.172.tif
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