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Reconstruction of the Masterplan of Jinmingchi Garden Shevchenko

of the buildings in the north bank, the boundary of the southern side of the pond was
platforms, and so on. Despite the imprecision in a straight line, hence the four walls were
of the perspective of the painting resulted in built in parallel. On the contrary, the walls on
the difficulty in measuring the length of the the painting seem unparallel because the walls
part of platform bulging into water in the were drew neither in perspective nor
south bank, it was necessary to determine the axonometric view. Using visual analysis,
length to reconstruct the masterplan of the referring to Baojin Tower as the center, the
Garden. The form of the wall in the south parallel buildings in the south bank were
bank was worth studying. The wall separating distributed alongside arcs [Figure 6B].
the bank and the street is on the lower left of Therefore, the outer edge of the platform in
the painting above which is the wall the north of the Waterfront Hall and the
separating Xian Bridge. The wall is hidden by starting point of Xian Bridge were in a same
Baojin Tower at the top of the painting. arc. Similarly, Lingxing Archway and the
According to archaeological findings, the bilateral platforms were in a same arc with the
entrance steps of the Waterfront Hall.

Figure 6. The analysis of perspectives in Jinmingchi Zhengbiao Tu. Source: Analysis by the author

Among the people depicted in the 9 m respectively [14] . The report has not
painting, those in the lower part of the indicated the width of 15 m refers to which
painting are in the same size as those on the part of the foundation, but the conclusion can
Xian Bridge, while the people in the upper be made after analyzing the scale of the
portion of the painting seem smaller. It can be Waterfront Hall in Jinmingchi Zhengbiao Tu.
inferred that in Jinmingchi Zhengbiao Tu, the According to the description in the book,
scales of the elements in the lower and center Yingzao Fashi (Technical Treatise on
of the painting are consistent. The inference Architecture and Craftsmanship, 营造法式),
facilitates the comparative analysis of the the height of the handrails of the Waterfront
buildings. Archaeological reports indicate a Hall is 4 chi (尺) (equal to1,244 mm). Based
foundation was found in the south of the pond, on this, the foundation of Waterfront Hall in
and it is presumed that the foundation belongs the painting is slightly larger than 15 m.
to the Waterfront Hall. The length, width, and
height of the foundation was 20 m, 15 m, and

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