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Jinshan and the Yangzi River
Wang Chongjie, Chinese Chinese
Not on view
This monumental painting presents a bird’s-eye view of Jinshan, an island near Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, in the lower reaches of the Yangzi River. The artist presents the complexly layered architecture of the Buddhist monastery—crowned at the top by a multistoried pagoda and occupying much of the small island—in intricate detail, but the true subject of the painting is mighty Yangzi, which flows eastward into the mist in the upper register.
