明代书籍插图与人物肖像画关系研究

A Research on the Relationship between the Illustrations and the Portraits in the Ming Dynasty

明代是中国封建社会城市经济和商品经济得到较大发展的历史时期。市民阶层的形成,促进了以戏曲、小说为代表的通俗文学的发展,戏曲、小说中的插图在继承宋元传统的基础上得到了前所未有的繁荣。明代的人物肖像画家面对人物画的弱势格局和蓬勃兴起的书籍出版业,积极为书籍创作插图,两者之间形成了紧密联系、共同发展的关系。

In the Ming Dynasty, the urban economics and commercial economy of China feudal society developed dramatically. Townspeople stratum came into being and stimulated the development of the popular literature represented by traditional opera and novel. Meanwhile, the illustrations in traditional opera and novel acquired an unprecedented flourish on the basis of the inheritance of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Ming portraitists, facing the booming publishing and weak portrait, actively created illustrations for books. Both above-mentioned factors established a correlation of close connection and common development.