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From China, across the generations
One of the exhibition's most beautiful paintings is "The Three Hermits: Plum, Chrysanthemum, and Narcissus," made in 1651 by Chen Hongshou, a calligrapher and renowned painter. Besides being a work of keen botanical observation, it is a tribute to three hermetic spiritual masters evoked in a poem by Hongshou inscribed to the left of the image.
(Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts)
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