Chapter 297 Yamamoto's Private Collection
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Xia Gui of the Southern Song Dynasty "Boat with Wind and Rain", Wang Zhenpeng of the Yuan Dynasty "Auntie Bathing in Buddha", Dong Yuan's "Picture of Pinglin Ji Shui" by Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, "Monkeys and Mercury Pictures" by the Northern Song Dynasty, "Poetic Pictures of Grass Pavilion" by Wu Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty, etc., a total of more than a dozen scrolls are displayed in front of you.
Even Jin Muchen, who had obtained many famous paintings before, was once again shocked by these famous paintings in front of him.
These are all famous paintings with historical records. Although some paintings are no longer known who the author of the painter is, the cultural and historical value of these paintings is a very high group.
I have to say that Shingo Yamamoto has a good vision. He took advantage of their opportunity to rob the art museum and stole so many good things from the museum. But he definitely didn't expect that in the end, all his efforts made wedding clothes for Jin Muchen and the others.
Among these paintings, the most famous one is the "Minghuang View of Horses" painted by an unknown author in the Yuan Dynasty. Jin Muchen had also paid attention to this painting before, but because time was too tight, it was not taken away in the end. Unexpectedly, this painting was finally taken out by Shingo Yamamoto.
The reason why this painting is famous is that there has always been great controversy about the author of this painting.
According to the introduction of the Boston Art Gallery, this painting is a work from the Yuan Dynasty. Some research scholars believe that this painting should actually be the authentic work of Wu Daozi.
There is no need to mention Wu Daozi's name, he is a figure known as the Painting Saint in the history of Chinese painting.
He was the master of the ancient Chinese landscape painting school, including the works of many Chinese painting masters in the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and even the Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times. The painting techniques he used were all precedents he set out in that year.
He himself was from the Tang Dynasty and his early life was quite miserable. Later, after his paintings were formed, he was summoned to the palace by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and became a special royal painter. He even issued an imperial edict to him that "no painting is allowed unless there is an edict." This means that unless the emperor asked you to draw, you cannot draw. You are the exclusive painter who belongs only to the emperor.
This led to the rare works that were later passed down by this painting saint.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty fell into decline, and the palace was controlled by eunuchs. After several wars, many of the peerless masterpieces in the Daming Palace were lost.
In the later rebellion of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the works that Wu Daozi could truly pass on were even rarer.
This "Picture of Emperor Ming's View of Horses" is a famous painting recorded in the Tang Palace history books that year. It depicts the scene of the horses personally after Emperor Xuanzong of Tang obtained a famous horse.
After the war in the late Tang Dynasty, this painting disappeared into the long river of history. It was released again during the Yuan Dynasty and was collected by many celebrities of the time.
However, because the middle age is quite old, no one dares to conclude that this painting is a genuine painting by Wu Daozi back then, but I have never heard of anyone copying this painting. After all, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the painting disappeared.
Later, it was collected by famous artists and spread to the late Qing Dynasty. Later, it disappeared from the country due to the riots. When it appeared again, it was already hanging on the wall of the Boston Art Museum.
As for the experience of the painting in the middle, no one can tell it clearly.
The Boston Art Gallery has never announced the source of this painting directly, and I guess it was not obtained through any brilliant means.
Later, many scholars have verified this painting and compared the styles of some murals left by Wu Daozi in China that year. They have determined that this painting is a real remains of Wu Daozi.
However, the Boston Art Museum has never expressed its attitude, and has always maintained an ambiguous attitude about whether this painting is Wu Daozi's authentic work.
It is probably because Wu Daozi's original works are very rare now, so they are afraid that once this painting is identified as authentic, it will attract Chinese pursuits, so they are reluctant to appraise this painting Carbon 14 for a long time.
Because the true identity of this painting has never been confirmed, it was defined by the art museum as a imitation of an unknown Yuan Dynasty painter, and it was not placed in the exhibition hall where Jin Muchen visited that day, which specially stored fine paintings. This made Jin Muchen miss the painting. Unexpectedly, this painting was actually made by the "heartfelt" Shingo Yamamoto.
But now I can only blame him for being unlucky, the cheap Jin Muchen.
More than a dozen paintings entered the backpack behind Jin Muchen again, and then he suddenly turned his head and smiled badly at Shingo Yamamoto. Shingo Yamamoto couldn't help but tremble in fear when he saw his smile.
"Mr. Yamamoto, is there only so much?"
"Forehead……"
"I advise you not to play tricks. Where did you take away from the art gallery, it seems that these paintings are more than just these paintings?"
Jin Muchen's smirk has turned into a sneer. In the past few days, he has seen the scenes of the reporters interviewing Shingo Yamamoto on the Internet several times.
This guy announced that the losses of the Oriental Department of the Art Museum were not just these things, but also many other treasures.
Shingo Yamamoto knew that it seemed that it was unlikely that he could hide it from them, so he could only turn around and walk into the vault again, but this time before he was about to enter, Jin Muchen slapped him on the shoulder.
"I'll go with you!"
After saying that, he gave Jesse a wink and signaled her to look forward to the door and not letting her play with Yamamoto. Jesse nodded at him, and Yamamoto was almost crying at this time.
"I can do these heavy work by myself..."
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."
Jin Muchen didn't want to listen to his nonsense, so he pushed him in with a slap, and followed him with a gun.
The area of this vault is quite large. It can even be said that it should be considered a secret room, about three or five square meters, and many small holes are found on the wall. Judging from the specifications, it should have been a wine cellar with red wine, but it was later changed to a vault.
Yamamoto entered inside, and without looking back, he came directly to the wall on his left. He bent down and raised a wooden box on the ground, and walked out. When he turned around and saw Jin Muchen behind him, he squeezed out a smile that was even worse than crying: "It's all here!"
"Oh! Is that?"
Jin Muchen looked at him with a sneer, but then suddenly turned around. This guy was not honest. When he came in, he led him here, for fear that he would look back at his right hand, and even when he was talking to him, his eyes were still wandering a little, looking behind him.
This shows that he still has good things, hiding them on his right hand.
Jin Muchen turned around and saw that the wall on the right was bare with wooden custom-made wall panels. However, he didn't believe that there were some wall panels as simple as this. He looked back at Shingo Yamamoto, and saw that this guy was trying hard to hide the tension in his eyes. When he saw him turn around, he actually squeezed out a hint of ugly smile.
"That's all really."
"Don't play tricks."
Jin Muchen didn't believe him, so he asked Jesse to take this guy out and take it easy. Then he came to the front of the wooden wall on his right and began to reach out and knock on the wall.
These wooden boards are all in the shape of floor strips. The color should be ordered and installed in recent years. The style is very different from the other walls in the room.
Soon in the middle, Jin Muchen heard something strange. The sound of the knocking of the wooden board was obviously different from other places. There must be a mystery behind the wooden board.
He reached out and pressed on the other squeezed wooden boards, but did not find the mechanism, and then tried to push the boards. Sure enough, the wooden board with a wrong sound cut open, and then the hidden grid behind the boards was exposed.
In this dark grid, Jin Muchen found two boxes, one with a long strip and the other with a square shape.
Before Jin Muchen could look at the two boxes, he put the two boxes in his arms, then left the secret room, and when he looked at his expression, he knew that he had succeeded.
Shingo Yamamoto's face was covered in dust, and Jesse smiled and signaled him to put down the things in his hand quickly. The guy seemed to be feeling a little emotional and threw the box on the desk in front of him, and there was a clang of gold and iron collision in the box.
Jin Muchen was furious and stepped forward and smashed the guy's head with a gun: "Mad, bastard, when you were robbed, you should have been awakened by someone. Now, why? Are you not afraid of death suddenly? You must know that we don't mind sending you a trip, and we can even help your whole family reunite in another world."
When Shingo Yamamoto heard what Jin Muchen said, he immediately became honest again, took out the habits of the Japanese, and gave Jin Muchen and Jesse a big bow.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong before. Everything is here, and even my own private possession has been found by you. Then it's my compensation. I hope you can let me and my family go."
"That's how good!"
Jin Muchen waved the pistol in his hand and gently twitched the guy's face a few times. When the cold gun body hit Shingo Yamamoto's face, the guy woke up from the anger he had just been robbed, and his heart was filled with more fear.
Jin Muchen didn't have time to pay attention to him at this time, and lowered his head and began to check the things in the box. He couldn't help but be shocked.
Damn, this box contains a whole box of bronze ware. This thing is in China, but it is a minefield for all collectors. The country has legislation prohibiting the circulation.
Chapter completed!