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| Keywords: Kublai Khan square.jpg and of a later portrait in 1280 of a hunt also seen in the English Wikipedia article for Kublai Khan <blockquote>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 </blockquote> 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 who was a confidant of Kublai and was commissioned to oversee several public works projects as well Portrait cropped out of a page from an album depicting several Yuan emperors Yuandai di banshenxiang now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei inv nr zhonghua 000324 Original size is 47 cm wide and 59 4 cm high Paint and ink on silk 忽必烈 National Palace Museum 1294 Anige of Nepal - an astronomer engineer painter and confidant of Kublai Khan PD-100 Original upload log en wikipedia FtCG page en wikipedia Kublai_Khan_square jpg wikitable Date/Time Dimensions User Comment - 04 34 5 May 2011 1 000 × 1 000 710 205 bytes Anetode w en <nowiki> </nowiki> - 04 33 5 May 2011 1 000 × 1 000 803 455 bytes Anetode w en <nowiki> </nowiki> Kublai Khan | ||||
