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Landscape with Poet Tao Yuanming (365–472 CE)
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About this work
Poet Tao Yuanming (365–427 CE) turned down a civil service career in politically turbulent times to write poetry and enjoy his garden. In his poem Drinking Wine , he wrote: "I pluck chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and serenely I gaze at the southern mountains." His desire to leave bureaucratic life for the simplicity and authenticity of nature has deeply resonated with generations of Chinese scholars, making it a popular theme in paintings.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with Poet Tao Yuanming (365–472 CE) (遠望南山), 1200s–1400s. China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or earlier. Album leaf; ink and color on silk; diameter: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.702
