Shi Rui

Shi Rui (simplified Chinese: 石锐; traditional Chinese: 石銳; pinyin: Shí Ruì; Wade–Giles: Shih Jui), courtesy name also Shi Rui, was a Chinese landscape and building painter in the early Ming Dynasty. His birth and death years are unknown. He was a native of Qiantang (錢塘, modern day Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province) and was active during the Xuande era (1426–1435) up to the Jingtai era (1449–1457).^[1] He served as an official at the Hall of Benevolence and Wisdom (仁智殿)^[2]

Shi Rui, Xuan Yuan Inquires of the Dao, National Palace Museum, Taibei

Notes

1. 中国古代书画鑑定组: Page 29.
2. Barnhart: Page 203.

References

• Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6
• Zhongguo gu dai shu hua jian ding zu (中国古代书画鑑定组). 2000. Zhongguo hui hua quan ji (中国绘画全集). Zhongguo mei shu fen lei quan ji. Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she. Volume 10.