the Song dynasty and is now held in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The Song version is complete in twelve scenes. The painting is on silk and is a polychrome. "The figures, whose countenances are at once solemn and tranquil, are described with a thin, unmodulated brush-line.... The brush-mode...has been described as 'spring silkworms spitting silk'". Nymph of the Luo River (洛神賦) Nymph of the Luo River is a painting by Gu which illustrates a poem written by Cao Zhi (192–232). It survives in three copies dating to the Song dynasty. One copy is now held in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and another one is now at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. The third was brought to Manchuria by the last emperor Pu Yi (1906–1967) while he was the puppet emperor of Manchukuo under Japanese rule. When the Japanese surrendered in 1945 the painting disappeared. After ten years the Liaoning Province Museum recovered it. Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智圖) Wise and Benevolent Women survives in a 13th-century copy dating to the Song dynasty, and is today located in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It illustrates a subset of the women described in the Han dynasty work Biographies of Exemplary Women. The 5-meter-long scroll is divided into 10 sections, with each section containing a short description. Notes References Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (). Ci hai (). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (), 1979. Further reading External links The Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum 洛神賦图在线高清展览 344 births 406 deaths Jin dynasty (266–420) painters Jin dynasty (266–420) politicians Painters from Wuxi Politicians from Wuxi 4th-century Chinese painters 5th-century Chinese painters