File:Guo Xu album dated 1503 (9).jpg

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Guo Xu (1456–c.1529)
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The scholar-artist Mi Fu was an eccentric of the eleventh century, and one of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty. It was well-known that he had a peculiar admiration for certain rocks. In this period, men of culture collected and placed in their gardens rare and unusual rocks from Lake Tai, which had become pitted and worn by the actions of wind and waves over many centuries. Mi Fu believed that some these rocks had their own souls and he was in the habit of paying them his respects, by bowing before them as if they were venerable old gentlemen.

— Chester Beatty Library
Date Dated 1503
Medium Album leaf; ink and colors on paper
Dimensions 29.8 × 49.3 cm
institution QS:P195,Q1051293
Place of creation China during the Ming dynasty
Notes

This is one of eleven paintings comprising an album.

  • ‘Fuxi, the maker of men’
    ‘Fuxi, the maker of men’
  • ‘Shennong, the divine farmer’
    ‘Shennong, the divine farmer’
  • ‘Drunken immortal’
    ‘Drunken immortal’
  • ‘Immortal Qiu’
    ‘Immortal Qiu’
  • ‘Seeking a suitable phrase’
    ‘Seeking a suitable phrase’
  • ‘An old lady feeds a hero’
    ‘An old lady feeds a hero’
  • ‘Immortal Ge spitting fire’
    ‘Immortal Ge spitting fire’
  • ‘Playing a flute, riding a buffalo’
    ‘Playing a flute, riding a buffalo’
  • ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’
    ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’
  • ‘Northern frontier’
    ‘Northern frontier’
  • ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’
    ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’
References ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
Source/Photographer ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
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