Dit is een vervolg op FOUR FACES
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
Yasunari Kawabata
Ma Yuan 馬遠 (c. 1160–1225) was a painter who lived during the Southern Song dynasty. His great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and son were all painters and held positions at court in that capacity. A characteristic feature of much of Ma Yuan's work is a 'one-corner’ composition, in which the most important elements of the painting are brought together in one of the corners. The other parts of the painting remain more or less empty.
Ma Yuan lived in Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song dynasty. Read also about the Lin Yin temple, West Lake and Yu Fei:
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