Praying for myriad virtues : on Ding Guanpeng's The Buddha preaching in the Berlin collection
by
 
Wang, Ching-Ling (Curator of Chinese art at the Rijksmuseum), author.

Title
Praying for myriad virtues : on Ding Guanpeng's The Buddha preaching in the Berlin collection
 
On Ting Kuan-p'eng's The Buddha preaching
 
Connecting art histories in the museum ;
 
Shuofa tu.

Author
Wang, Ching-Ling (Curator of Chinese art at the Rijksmuseum), author.

ISBN
9783862064786

Personal Author
Wang, Ching-Ling (Curator of Chinese art at the Rijksmuseum), author.

Publication Information
Dortmund : Verlag Kettler, [2017]

Physical Description
167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 25 cm 1 poster (30 x 36 cm folded to 23 x 15 cm)

Series
Connecting art histories in the museum ; vol. 3
 
Connecting art histories in the museum ; v. 3.

General Note
Includes folded poster of "The Buddha preaching" affixed to inside of back cover.

Abstract
The Buddha Preaching, painted in 1770 by Ding Quanpeng, and now in the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, is among the largest paintings ever produced by a court artist of the Qing Dynasty. Over ten meters wide, it depicts the Buddha preaching the dharma and surrounded by a pantheon of deities in a Buddhist paradise. As the final masterpiece of the first-ranked court painter ... it is worthy of research for both its artistic merit and ist historical significance. This fundamental study of the painting reveals the value of this much-over-looked work ... providing new research material and contextualizing the function and meaning of the painting by considering its original location and reconstructing its impact in the institutional and religious contexts of the Qing court.
 
Die Buddhapredigt von Ding Guanpeng aus dem Jahr 1770 gehört zu den größten je von einem Hofmaler in der Qing Dynastie geschaffenen Gemälden. Das Werk, das sich heute in der Sammlung des Ethnologischen Museums in Berlin befindet, wurde selbst von der chinesischen Kunstwissenschaft bis heute kaum beachtet. Autor Ching-Ling Wang, Kurator für chinesische Kunst am Amsterdamer Rijksmuseum, versucht in seinem Buch den Stellenwert des Gemäldes neu zu bewerten. Anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse ergründet Wang den künstlerischen und kunsthistorischen Wert der Arbeit. Er stellt Fragen nach Funktion und Bedeutung und bettet das Werk in einen kulturhistorischen Kontext ein. Thematisiert werden auch die wechselvolle Geschichte des Gemäldes, sein Eingang in die Berliner Sammlung sowie Untersuchungen zu Ikonografie und Technik.

Personal Subject
Ding, Guanpeng, active 18th century. Shuofa tu.

Corporate Subject
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.

Subject Term
Buddhist painting -- China.
 
Buddhist gods in art.
 
Painting, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
 
Buddhist painting.
 
Painting, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties.

Geographic Term
China.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163).

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