Fujiwara Nobuzane
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Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
artists of his day.
Nobuzane was born in Kyoto
Kyoto
is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...
, and was the son of Fujiwara Takanobu
Fujiwara Takanobu
Fujiwara Takanobu was one of the leading Japanese portrait artists of his day.Takanobu was born in Kyoto, and was the half-brother of Fujiwara Sadaie, one of Japan’s greatest poets. Takanobu specialized in nise-e portraits, except instead of painting on small-size paper Takanobu painted on...
. He is also one of Japan’s greatest portrait artists. Takanobu specialized in nise-e
Nise-e
Nise-e , or "likeness pictures," were a style of portraiture popular in the courts and intellectual circles of Japan's Kamakura period. Court officials, poets and intellectuals, and other prominent figures, would be portrayed in such a way as to capture the essence and personality of the individual...
(“likeness picture”) portraits. Of his works that have survived, the most notable is The 36 Major Poets. Nobuzane's son Tametsugu and grandson Tamenobu carried on the family tradition of painting.
External links
- Britannica article
- http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/syuzou/meihin/kaiga/emaki/item02.htmlPortraits of Court Nobles, by Fujiwara Nobuzane, Kyoto National MuseumKyoto National MuseumThe is one of the three formerly imperially-mandated art museums in Japan. The museum is located in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto. The collections of the Kyoto National Museum focus on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art....
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