Xuanhe Huapu (宣和畫譜, "The Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings") is an 1120 Chinese palace catalog from the Song dynasty, which in 20 chapters categorized and described ~6396 paintings by 231 artists in the collection of Emperor Huizong of Song.
The book is one of the most important sources about 11th/12th-century Chinese art, even if most paintings it described are no longer extant.
[1][2] (Emperor Huizong, a talented painter/connoisseur but inept ruler, was captured by the invading Jin dynasty army in 1127, and his collection was thus lost.)
The catalog contains 20 chapters, divided into categories:[3] Biographies of artists are arranged under the category for which he was most famous, which are typically accompanied with a critical evaluation of his style.
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