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[Ting Yün-p’engzi Nanyuhao Shenghua Jushi] (b Xiuning, Anhui Province, 1547; d after 1625). Chinese painter. The son of a physician with modest artistic aspirations, he inherited his father’s love for art but was left with no financial means and was obliged to paint for a living. Ding became known primarily for his Buddhist figure painting, though he also painted landscapes and designed woodblock book illustrations. Ding was the most conservative of the major late Ming-period (1368–1644) figure painters with whom he is often grouped, but although he did not develop a distinctive or inventive personal style, he was a versatile artist of eclectic tastes, displaying a wide range in subject matter and style (see fig.). In the late 1570s Ding left Xiuning for the influential artistic center of Huating in Jiangsu Province (modern Songjiang, Shanghai Municipality). He lived occasionally in Buddhist monasteries as a lay practitioner and made religious pictures for various temples. His earliest surviving dated work, an album depicting ...