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| Keywords: Kublai Khan.jpg YuanEmperorAlbumKhubilaiPortrait jpg 元世祖 忽必烈 and of a later portrait in 1280 of a hunt also seen in the English Wikipedia article for Kublai Khan <blockquote>A Chinese portrait of him painted around this time i e roughly the time of the rebellion of Li Tang and execution of Wang Wentong in 1262 shows a robust determined man He wears a simple white cloth garment; no silks or furs adorn his body His black and white hat is hardly lavish and his mustache and beard are trim and obviously cared for Most important the picture shows that Khubilai had not yet abandoned himself to sensual pleasures Though certainly not gaunt neither was he obese as he became toward the end of his reign Probably food Chinese or any other kind had not yet become a consuming passion; nor does he show any sign of being a heavy drinker as later he would become His alertness and robustness contrast sharply with his appearance in a painting executed in 1280 Two decades after assuming power in China he had become grotesquely fat </blockquote> In the Artibus Asiae article The Portraits of Khubilai Khan and Chabi by Anige 1245-1306 a Nepali Artist at the Yuan Court Anning Jing provides the history of this painting and that of Kublai's wife Chabi painted by a Nepalese artist named Anige who was a confidant of Kublai and was commissioned to oversee several public works projects as well Anige of Nepal an astronomer engineer painter and confidant of Kublai Khan National Palace Museum 1294 PD-old-100 Portraits of Emperors of the Yuan Dynasty Kublai Khan Moustaches PD China | ||||
