Wang Shizhen's Collection Of Paintings And Calligraphy

This thesis is a study of the Wang Shizhen's appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wang Shizhen was a well-known scholar official in the mid-late Ming period, and an expert in appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy. He spent most of his life exploring in the fields of literature, history, religion and art, and achieved great accomplishment in literature and history study, as well as appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This thesis tries to study the activities of his appreciation, identification and collection of painting and calligraphy, as well as some relevant aspects, such as the practices and different periods of his art appreciation, identification and collection, the influence of such traditions in his family and regions south of Yangtze River, his socializing group and social life related to art appreciation, identification and collection, and the comparison between different experts in this filed in the mid-late Ming period. In this way this thesis tends to sketch Wang Shizhen's view of history and methodology, his historical views of Chinese painting and calligraphy, his concept of appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy, as well as the principles, purposes, functions and characteristics of appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy, therefore to reveal the value and contribution of Wang Shizhen's appreciation, identification and collection of Chinese paiting and calligraphy.