Description In the collection of Palace Museum, Beijing The Imperial Sedan, also known as "Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy". It is one of Liben’s famous paintings depicting the meeting of Emperor Taizong and Ludongzan (The first king of Tibet who was infatuated with Princess Wencheng from China and built her a palace to live in. In 641 he sent Ludongzan to China to accompany her back to Tibet to be his queen.). In the painting, subordinate servants are smaller and the main figure larger than normal. This style was a characteristic of the 7th century painters.
Biographical Details Yan Liben (600-673) was one of the greatest painters of the Tang dynasty who worked his way up the social ladder to one of the highest positions in the government, the Prime Minister of the Right. He was also the main court painter for three reigns, starting his career in Taizong’s imperial court (627-649). Yan Liben introduced a new sense of realism to portrait painting, a genre which he did much to develop during the period of the T’ang Dynasty. Although probably none of his original works survives today, records tell us that he was most renowned for his paintings of Buddhist and Taoist themes and also as the painter of historical personages and events. The superb scroll painting Portraits of Thirteen Emperors in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been attributed to him but may be a copy. It represents the peak of early T’ang art.
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