Chinese Painting Connoisseurship: Select

This seminar will look carefully at masterpieces of Chinese painting in Japanese and American collections. The aim of the course is to develop an intuitive sense of the quality appropriate for different genres, formats, and periods. Special attention will be given to the way paintings are presented from the outside title slip to inner title sheet (yin shou) to seals and colophons. We will also consider, or at least speculate on, the artist’s intended audience.