Home›Open Questions›Who Were the Unnamed Painters of the Yongle Palace Chaoyuan Tu Mural?Open QuestionsWho Were the Unnamed Painters of the Yongle Palace Chaoyuan Tu Mural?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Who Were the Unnamed Painters of the Yongle Palace Chaoyuan Tu Mural?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-were-the-unnamed-painters-of-the-yongle-palace-chaoyuan-tu-mural.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Who Were the Unnamed Painters of the Yongle Palace Chaoyuan Tu Mural?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-were-the-unnamed-painters-of-the-yongle-palace-chaoyuan-tu-muralCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-who-were-the-unnamed-painters-of-the-yon, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Who Were the Unnamed Painters of the Yongle Palace Chaoyuan Tu Mural?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-were-the-unnamed-painters-of-the-yongle-palace-chaoyuan-tu-mural}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe mural's own inscription and every modern source consulted credit Ma Junxiang and his son Ma Qi as its painters "and others," but none names those others, states how many additional painters worked on it, or describes how a mural of roughly four hundred square meters completed within a single year was divided among a workshop team.What would resolve this A closer reading of the mural's own inscription text, temple donor or workshop records from the period, or a stylistic analysis distinguishing individual painting hands across different sections of the mural, any of which could identify the additional painters or at least establish how many there were.OpenChinese art history, Yuan dynasty epigraphy, workshop and guild studiesWikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, "Yongle Gong"Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnAssembly of the Taoist Deities (Yongle Palace), Sacred Art & Iconography Well-attested Source Wikipedia, "Yongle Gong"Wikipedia contributorstier 3SourcesWikipedia, "Yongle Gong"tier 3Wikipedia contributors, WikipediaView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year