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Hui Tsung

American  
[hwee dzoong] / ˈʰwi ˈdzʊŋ /
Pinyin, Hui Zong

noun

  1. 1082–1135, emperor of China 1101–26: painter and patron of art.


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Playing his feminine roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was so closely allied to painting that the Emperor Hui Tsung, who ascended the throne in 1100, founded the Imperial Academy of Calligraphy and Painting in the first year of his reign.

From Project Gutenberg

Hui Tsung was himself a painter.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps before long we shall find authentic paintings by Hui Tsung.

From Project Gutenberg

A painting belonging to the Musée Guimet, which comes from the collection of Tuan Fang, is the one which by its annotations bears the greatest guaranty of authenticity, but it is a representation of a figure painting of the T’ang dynasty and gives us no information as to the manner in which Hui Tsung painted eagles.

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