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Shen Zhou
Chinese painter (1472–1509)
For other uses, see Shenzhou (disambiguation).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Shen (沈).
Shen Zhou (Chinese: 沈周; pinyin: Shěn Zhōu, 1427–1509), courtesy namesQinan (启南) and Shitian (石田), was a Chinese painter in the Ming dynasty.
He lived during the post-transition period of the Yuan conquest of the Ming. His family worked closely with the government and maintained its wealthy status.
There was a man who was known for his expertise in the field of medicine.
Shen later retired and lived a reclusive life, spending most of his time painting and taking care of his widowed mother.
He was a contributor to the more individualist Wu School of Chinese art. Besides painting, he was also accomplished in history and the classics.
Life
Shen Zhou was born into a wealthy family[1] in Xiangcheng, near the thriving city of Suzhou, in the Jiangsu province, China. His genealogy traces his family's wealth to the late Yuan period, but only as far as Shen's paternal great-grandfather, Shen