<tc>“The Collection of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty Paintings” VOL.1</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: “Lidai diwang tu (The Thirteen Emperors)” attributed to Yan Libenin which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies” attributed to Gu Kaizhi which is in the British Museum. “Stroll About in Spring” attributed to Zhan Ziqian which is in The Palace Museum. “Si Lyu Gong Ao Tu” attributed to Wu Daozi which is in The Palace Museum. Two “Jinnong five ox chart” attributed to Han Huang, Tang Dynasty, which is in The Palace Museum and the Ohara Museum of Art respectively. It is meaningful that above paintings recorded in one collection unprecedentedly.
＊The painters: Gu Kaizhi (two pieces of works), Zhan Ziqian (one pieces of works), Yan Libenin (two pieces of works), Li Sixun (two pieces of works), Li Zhaodao (two pieces of works), Wu Daozi (one pieces of works), Lu Longcie (one pieces of works), Liang Lingzan (one pieces of works), Han Gan (one pieces of works), Han Huang (three pieces of works), Zhou Fang (three pieces of works), Lu Yao (one pieces of works), Li Chen (one pieces of works), Sun Wei (one pieces of works), Anonymous (five pieces of works).
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Museum image licensing:
＊China: The Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Liaoning Provincial Museum, KunLunTang Art Gallery.
＊The UK: British Museum.
＊The USA: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
＊Japan: Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Ohara Museum of Art, Tō-ji Temple.
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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 master paintings recorded in “The Collection of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty Paintings” are all the treasures in art history, which have abundant history, culture, and artist value. Collectors throughout the ages all regard them as gems. As time goes by, most of the relic paintings of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty can not be passed down. That is to say, the brilliant paintings of the era are only for us to speculate, instead of appreciating with our own eyes. It is precious that the collections handed down now are the only copy extant basically.

“The Collection of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty Paintings” are expected to publish 6 scrolls and 13 volumes. And we will publish VOL.2-VOL.6 in succession since 2022. Coming soon…

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