Leaf & Spine

Cover art · mountains

Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

Juran (Chinese, active 960–985), 960–85.

Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains
Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains — Cleveland Museum of Art

Using it on a cover

The print file prints up to 3.3 x 11.3 in at 300 ppi — fine for smaller trims or inset artwork, but too small to fill a 6 x 9 in cover at 300 ppi. Taller than a 6 x 9 cover: crop about 57% of the height.

About the work

Monk Juran served the Southern Tang (937–75) imperial house in Nanjing, where he studied with Dong Yuan (active 930s–60s). Both founded the southern landscape tradition, or Jiangnan school, known for gentle misty riverscapes in wet ink. Juran moved north to Kaifeng when the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song, the impact of which may be seen in this painting, presumably painted after 976.

More mountains art

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