page_title: Gu Kaizhi
section_title: Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智圖)
hierarchical_section_title: Gu Kaizhi / Works / Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智圖)
caption_attribution_description: English: Gu Kaizhi. Wise and Benevolent Women, a 13th century Song Dynasty (960–1279) copy of the 4th century original work. Palace Museum, Beijing.
context_page_description: Gu Kaizhi, courtesy name Changkang, was a Chinese painter and politician. He was a celebrated painter of ancient China. He was born in Wuxi and first painted at Nanjing in 364. In 366, he became an officer. Later he was promoted to royal officer. He was also a talented poet and calligrapher. He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting, Introduction of Famous Paintings of Wei and Jin Dynasties and Painting Yuntai Mountain. He wrote: "In figure paintings the clothes and the appearances were not very important. The eyes were the spirit and the decisive factor."
  Gu's art is known today through copies of several silk handscroll paintings attributed to him.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: The 13th century Palace Museum copy of the Wise and Benevolent Women, full painting.
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