Qu Ding

In this Chinese name, the family name is Qu (屈).

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding (ca. 1023–ca. 1056)^[1] (Chinese: 屈鼎) was a Chinese painter of the Song dynasty.

He learned the art of painting from Yan Wengui, a master artist of that time period. His work, Summer Mountains, currently held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is perhaps the only work of his that has survived to the present day. His paintings of landscapes bring out a panoramic view of mountains and rivers. Summer Mountains bears the seal of Emperor Huizong of Song, a noted patron of the arts and himself an artist, which may imply that Qu Ding was a court painter in the court of Huizong.^[2]

Further reading

• Fong, Wen (1975). Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870991353.

See also

• Qu (surname 屈)

References

1. "Summer Mountains | Attributed to Qu Ding | 1973.120.1 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
2. Department of Asian Art. "Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2017-12-10.