Ni Yuanlu
Ni Yuanlu (Chinese: 倪元璐; pinyin: Ní Yuánlù; Wade–Giles: Ni Yüan-lu; ca. 1593–1644), courtesy name Yuru (玉汝), art name Hongbao (鴻寶), posthumous names Wenzheng (文正) and Wenzhen (文貞), was a high-ranking official, calligrapher, and painter of the Ming dynasty of China.
Ni was born in Shangyu, Zhejiang.[1] He passed the imperial examination in 1621 as a jinshi and was a scholar in the Hanlin Academy.[2] Ni's calligraphy used a semicursive script style with refined strokes. Ni committed suicide by hanging at the end of the Ming dynasty.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Ni Yuanlu Brief Biography". Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- 1 2 Cihai: Page 253.
References
[edit]- Cihai. Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe (上海辞书出版社), 1979.
- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
External links
[edit]- Ni Yuanlu and his Calligraphy Gallery at China Online Museum
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