Liu Yuan 劉元

Other names

Family

• Kinship Role wives · Count 2 · palace women granted by the throne
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 263

Career and standing

• office commanding his artisan subordinates 官長其屬
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 263
• Director of the Palace Library 秘書卿
  Held
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 269
• Grand Academician of the Academy of Literary Brilliance 昭文館大學士
  Held
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 269
• Grand Master for Proper Service 正奉大夫
  Held
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 269
• Entered
  Daoist priest
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 260
• forbidden to make other deities' images for private patrons without imperial order 非有旨不許為人造他神像
  Restricted · Authority Emperor Renzong (仁宗)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 264

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passages 261, 269
• At Baodi in Ji prefecture 薊之寶坻 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 259

Learning and skills

• Subject Indian Buddhist images 西天梵相 · Teacher Person Id Anige (阿尼哥)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 258
• Subject multiple arts 其藝非一 · Teacher Person Id Ba (把)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 260
• Skill clay, cast-metal, and boduo-huan Buddha images 塑土、范金、搏換為佛像 · Level consummate
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 261

Works and attributed material

• image of the Emperor of Benevolence and Sagacity 仁聖帝像
  Relation Maker
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 265
• Three Sovereigns at Shangdu 上都三皇
  Relation Maker
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 262
• Western Regions Buddha images 西番佛像
  Relation Maker
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 268
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 266

Events and relationships

• Accompanied emperor on progress
  Court · Attendant
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 263
• Granted palace women as wives
  Marriage · Husband · Count 2
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 263
• Made Eastern Peak temple images
  Artisan · Sculptor · At Eastern Peak Temple, southern Dadu 大都南城東嶽廟
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 265
• Modeled attendant on Wei Zheng portrait
  Artisan · Sculptor · With Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passages 266-267
• Relation Student of · Person Ba (把)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 260
• Relation Student of · Person Anige (阿尼哥)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 258

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment captured the subtle essence of the three sage-kings · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 262
• Assessment consummate artist; realm acclaimed his images · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passages 258, 261
• Assessment scholar-officials marveled at the attendant image finished in one day · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 267