Tang Di

CHINA, Zhejiang, Wuxing; Yuan dynasty

Tang Di was a painter and poet who was also known as Zihua or Dunzhai. As a child he was clever and enthusiastic to learn. Exceptionally talented, he was proficient in landscape and figure painting and used powerful brushstrokes to produce an elegant, classical style. Tang served as a court painter and studied under Zhao Mengfu, Guo Xi, and Li Cheng. In 1329, he was summoned to paint murals at Longxiang Temple in Jiangsu. Four years later, he was requested to paint murals at the Imperial Jiaxi Palace in Beijing.
His extant paintings, Drinking in the Shade of Pine Trees and Fishing in the Snowy Mountains, are kept at the Shanghai Museum and Enjoy Fishing on a Raining Foggy River and Landscape are at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. His calligraphy, Poems Dedicated to Sichuang and Xuelin, is kept at Hong Kong Museum of Art.