Kanō Motonobu

1476–1559 · Japan

Kanō Motonobu (August 28, 1476 – November 5, 1559) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher. He was a member of the Kanō school of painting. Through his political connections, patronage, organization, and influence he was able to make the Kanō school into what it is today. Wikipedia

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Works

“Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons”, 1513 — Daisen-in
“a Picture of Sumimoto Hosokawa on Horseback”, 1507
“Chinese Boys at Play”, 1524 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Landscape” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Landscape”, 1536 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Ink Landscape”, 1549 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Chinese Sage” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Street Show” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Bo Ya Plays the Qin as Zhong Ziqi Listens”, 1534 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Birds and Flowers”, 1534–1566 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Painting on Zen Enlightenment (Sanping baring his chest and Shigong stretching his bow)”
“Waterfall”
“Portrait of Hosokawa Takakuni”, 1543
“Bird, Flowers, and Fruit by a Waterfall” — Princeton Art Museum
“Hanging Scroll: Cuckoo Seated on a Branch” — Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“Geese in Winter Landscape” — Princeton Art Museum
“Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape” — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape”, 1529 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Scenes from 24 Paragons of Filial Piety”
“Eight Views of the Xiao-Xiang Region (Shosho Hakkei)” — Yale University Art Gallery