<tc>The limited edition of “The Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings”</tc>

The plates of the collections include:
＊The copyright information of three languages (Chinese, English, Japanese).
＊Complete images of the collections: The images present the “guide, ge-shui (a form of calligraphy and painting mounting), painting, seal, preface and postscript, and the small-paper copy (according to the scale of paper) of paintings.
＊Full scale images of the collections: Annotating “full size” under the plates of the paintings or the preface and postscript with higher artistic value.
＊Detail images of the collections: Providing the more exquisite details and abundant information about pen and ink of the paintings. Magnifying the whole or the part of paintings with several plates, and annotating “ a large size proportion”.

The introduction of the plates include:
＊The introduction of the collections: Inviting the experts in artist to write appreciation and textual criticism for each collection.
＊The interpretation of preface and postscript: The complete, detailed, and rigorous interpretation of the words on preface and postscript (guide, ge-shu, Shih Tang, streak), then through strike review and proofreader, and presented with standard Traditional Chinese.
＊The interpretation of the seals: All the seals published in each collection had interpreted by the experts. Then put them in the introductory of plates after comparing the pictures and words.

The master pieces and the painters recorded in this collection include:
＊The master pieces: “Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Qingming Shanghe Tu)” attributed to Zhang Zeduan. “Crows on Willows and Wild Geese in Reeds” attributed to Zhao Ji. “Lin Wei Yan Mu Fang Tu” attributed to Li Gonglin. “Immortal in Splashed Ink” attributed to Liang K’ai. “Dancing and Singing (Peasants Returning from Work)” attributed to Ma Yuan. “Snow-Covered Scene and Cold Forest” attributed to Fan Kuan. “Luxuriant Forest among Distant Peaks” attributed to Li Cheng. “Gathering Wild Herbs” attributed to Li Tang. “Three Friends of Winter” attributed to Zhao Mengjian.
It is meaningful that the paintings above are recorded in one collection unprecedentedly.
＊The painters: The collection records many paintings of the famous painters in Song Dynasty include Wang Jyujheng (a piece of work), Zhang Zeduan (a piece of work), Zhao Ji (15 pieces of work), Li Gonglin (8 pieces of work), Liang Kai (13 pieces of work), Ma Yuan (14 pieces of work), Fan Kuan (3 pieces of work), Li Cheng (5 pieces of work), Li Tang (11 pieces of work), Guo Xi (5 pieces of work), Zhao Mengjian (3 pieces of work), etc.
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Museum image licensing:
＊China: The Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Liaoning Provincial Museum,National Museum of China, etc.
＊Europe: British Museum, Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, National Gallery Prague, etc.
＊The USA: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Brooklyn Museum, etc.
＊Japan: Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, etc.
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Experts recommend:
Wen C. Fong (a famous art historian, a emeritus professor of Department of Art and Archaeology in Princeton University)
Richard Barnhart (a famous art historian, a academic tenure of Yale University)
Hiroyuki Sugiyama (the chief of KGC)
Innshutsu Meikou (the vice chief of KGC)
Beitaku Hannhaku (SCREEN in Japan)

Paintings of Chinese past dynasties have been compiled and published in sequence —“The Collection of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings” “The Collection of Yuan Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Ming Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Qing Dynasty Paintings”. 67 scrolls and more than 240 volumes in total, which collected more than 12250 pieces of Chinese paintings of more than 260 museums at home and abroad. Taking more than 23000 high clear images, including most of the national treasure level Chinese paintings which are handed on from one generation to another. So far, the books have the most complete collections, the most vivid image records, the most exquisite printing quality, and the largest published image of Chinese painting of all the similar publications.

“The Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings” is the pioneer of large-scale dynastic collection of Chinese painting history. Its contents include the important works of each major school of painting of Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties. And its types of paintings include Shan shui (landscape painting), bird‑flower painting, figure painting, genre painting, and Scribing, etc. This is the most authoritative and the most complete collection of Song Dynasty paintings. Moreover, the book is a large-scale project‑based research result of Song Dynasty art culture after some classics of Song Dynasty like “Quan Song Ci (Collection of Song Ci Poems)”, “Quan Song Shih (Collection of Song Dynasty Poems)”, and “Quan Song Wun (The Complete Works of Song Dynasty)”.

“The Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings” are expected to publish 10 scrolls (volumes) and 36 volumes. We are going to publish VOL.9-VOL.10 in succession since 2022. Coming soon…

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