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Look up the many stories of the pagoda at the left, then past the tinted roofs to the small boat on the river and the bridge at the far right.
The visit ends at the Cloudy Cliff Monastery, among its halls and its tall pagoda. This is one of the views Shen Zhou painted in subtle colors within a set that is mostly ink alone, warming the walls and roofs while mist settles over the river and the hills beyond. The leaf carries his seal Qinan and a seal of the later collector Hou Shigong.
Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper · Image: 31.1 x 41 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Ming
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- Museum title
- The Thousand Buddha Hall and the Pagoda of the "Cloudy Cliff" Monastery, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
- Artist
- Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509)
- Date
- after 1490
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.1 x 41 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1427–1509
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.