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The "Heart" Sutra written in cursive script

20th century

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Image (a): 14 × 43 in. (35.6 × 109.2 cm) Image (b): 13 1/4 × 41 1/2 in. (33.7 × 105.4 cm) Image (c): 13 3/4 × 22 1/2 in. (34.9 × 57.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977

Classification

Rubbing

Department

Asian Art

Culture

China

Rights

Public Domain

About Wang Xizhi

321–379 • Eastern Jin dynasty

Celebrated calligrapher and grand master of the cursive writing "caoshu" or grass writing.

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