Encyclopedia entries (8)
"...it is known that when young he went to the capital city Bianliang (modern Kaifeng) to study, and subsequently focused on studying painting...." Access this article via Oxford Art Online, Wollongong City Library databases
"...Going up the River on the Qingming Festival (Beijing, Pal. Mus.) by Zhang Zeduan (fl 12th century) is a rare survival of landscape painting of a different type..."Access this article via Oxford Art Online, Wollongong City Library databases
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Journal articles:
"...A case in point is Zhang Zeduan's Qingming shanghe tu (variously translated as Going Upriver for the Qingming Festival, QingningFestival on the River, or even Peace Reigns on the Rivere), a twelfth-century tour de force that is often characterized as narrative. This handscroll depicts a parade of human activity through a continuous terrain that extends from the countryside through a bustling suburb and on into a walled city (Fig. 5). Over seventeen feet in length, the painting encompasses literally hundreds of figures and dozens of man-made structures..." Access this article via Proquest database, Wollongong City Library databases
"...As an imperial treasure originally meant for the pleasure of the emperor and select members of his court, "Qingming" has always been inaccessible to the masses... In addition to its esthetic qualities, "Qingming" continues to fascinate because of what it celebrates: "a prosperous, urban state from the perspective of the working class,..." Access this article via Proquest database, Wollongong City Library databases