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Araniko: Q119684951  wikidata:Q119684951 reasonator:Q119684951
Artist
Araniko  (1244–1306)  wikidata:Q626019
 
Alternative names
A-ni-go; Arniko; A-ni-ko; A-ni-ke; Anige; Balabahu
Description Nepali architect, painter and astronomer
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kathmandu Valley Edit this at Wikidata Khanbaliq Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q626019
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Title
Chinese:
《元代帝半身像册-元世祖皇帝像》
Simplified Chinese:
《元代帝半身像册-元世祖皇帝像》
label QS:Lzh,"元代帝半身像册-元世祖皇帝像"
label QS:Lzh-hans,"元代帝半身像册-元世祖皇帝像"
Part of Portraits from the Nanxun Hall Edit this at Wikidata
Series title Album of Yuan Emperor Portraits Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Post-mortem portrait of Kublai Khan; made to make him appear about 30 years younger.
العربية: رسم لِقوبلاي خان، وُضع بعد وفاته، وصُوِّر فيه الخاقان الأعظم أصغر بِثلاثين سنة عن زمن موته.
Depicted people Kublai Khan
Date circa February 1294
date QS:P571,+1294-02-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Medium album leaf, ink and colors on silk
Dimensions height: 59.4 cm (23.3 in); width: 47 cm (18.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,47U174728
institution QS:P195,Q540668
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中-畫-000324-00003 (National Palace Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Yuan dynasty Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: A painting of Shizu, better known as Kublai Khan, as he would have appeared in the 1260s (although this painting is a posthumous one executed shortly after his death in February of 1294, by a Nepalese artist and astronomer Anige). The painting is done in the Chinese portrait style. Kublai's white robes reflect his desired and symbolic role as a religious Mongol shaman.[1]

On pages 66 to 67 of Rossabi's Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, he has this to say of the portrait and of a later portrait in 1280 of a hunt, also seen in the English Wikipedia article for Kublai Khan[2]:

A Chinese portrait of him painted around this time [i.e. roughly the time of the rebellion of Li Tang and execution of Wang Wentong in 1262] shows a robust, determined man. He wears a simple white cloth garment; no silks or furs adorn his body. His black and white hat is hardly lavish, and his mustache and beard are trim and obviously cared for. Most important, the picture shows that Khubilai had not yet abandoned himself to sensual pleasures. Though certainly not gaunt, neither was he obese, as he became toward the end of his reign. Probably food, Chinese or any other kind, had not yet become a consuming passion; nor does he show any sign of being a heavy drinker, as later he would become. His alertness and robustness contrast sharply with his appearance in a painting executed in 1280. Two decades after assuming power in China, he had become grotesquely fat.

In the Artibus Asiae article The Portraits of Khubilai Khan and Chabi by Anige (1245-1306), a Nepali Artist at the Yuan Court, Anning Jing provides the history of this painting and that of Kublai's wife Chabi, painted by a Nepalese artist named Anige (also known as Araniko), who was a confidant of Kublai and was commissioned to oversee several public works projects as well.[3]
References
  1. a b An album depicting several Yuan emperors (Yuandai di banshenxiang), now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei (inv. nr. zhonghua 000324)
  2. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, Morris Rossabi, pages 66 to 67 (paperback)
  3. The Portraits of Khubilai Khan and Chabi by Anige (1245-1306), a Nepali Artist at the Yuan Court, Anning Jing, Artibus Asiae
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