Chaoyuan Tu (The Heavenly Court)
Ma Junxiang, Ma Qi and other painters
1325 (Yuan dynasty, second year of the Taiding era)
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- 国家艺术档案 — National Art Archives
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Panoramic view of the Yuan-dynasty Daoist mural Chaoyuan Tu, preserved inside the Sanqing Hall (Hall of the Three Purities) at Yongle Palace, Ruicheng County, Shanxi, China. The mural depicts a celestial assembly of Daoist deities paying homage to Yuanshi Tianzun. Around the principal imperial deities are heavenly emperors, stellar gods, immortal officials, guardians, attendants, golden boys and jade maidens, comprising approximately 290 figures.
