Taiwan to put 660-year-old painting together for first time in centuries
Taiwan’s national museum is to put the two halves of a 660-year-old Chinese landscape painting on display bringing together the work for the first time in centuries.
The Yuan Dynasty painting was torn into two pieces more than 300 years ago by a private collector who tried to burn it as he was dying, but a relative quickly saved it from the flames. The two parts have been kept in separate places since then.
The main portion of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” by revered Chinese landscape painter Huang Gongwang has been stored in Taipei’s Palace Museum since 1949, when the two sides separated during a civil war.
The other part of the 20-foot-long painting will be shipped from China’s Zhejiang Provincial Museum for an exhibition opening June 2, Palace Museum Director Chou Kung-shin said.....