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Artist
Guo Xu (1456–c.1529)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

In legend, the Weaver Girl was the star Vega – the brightest star in the sky. Her duty was weaving clouds. She fell in love with a lowly Cowherd (the star Altair) and they had children. Carried away by her romance, however, she neglected to weave clouds, and her father, the lord of the heavens, separated the couple, by creating the River of Heaven (or Milky Way) across the middle of the sky, dividing the two stars. In popular belief, the lovers are reunited on one night of the year - the seventh night of the seventh lunar month – when magpies form a bridge across the Milky Way.

— Chester Beatty Library
Date Dated 1503
Medium Album leaf; ink and colors on paper
Dimensions 29.8 × 49.3 cm
institution QS:P195,Q1051293
Place of creation China during the Ming dynasty
Notes

This is one of eleven paintings comprising an album.

  • ‘Fuxi, the maker of men’
    ‘Fuxi, the maker of men’
  • ‘Shennong, the divine farmer’
    ‘Shennong, the divine farmer’
  • ‘Drunken immortal’
    ‘Drunken immortal’
  • ‘Immortal Qiu’
    ‘Immortal Qiu’
  • ‘Seeking a suitable phrase’
    ‘Seeking a suitable phrase’
  • ‘An old lady feeds a hero’
    ‘An old lady feeds a hero’
  • ‘Immortal Ge spitting fire’
    ‘Immortal Ge spitting fire’
  • ‘Playing a flute, riding a buffalo’
    ‘Playing a flute, riding a buffalo’
  • ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’
    ‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’
  • ‘Northern frontier’
    ‘Northern frontier’
  • ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’
    ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’
References ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
Source/Photographer ‘The Creation of the Milky Way’. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
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