-Hanging scroll -Painting on silk was a highly desired and greatly esteemed product.
--Korean Prime Minister; scholar and soldier, involved in creating the modern Korean alphabet. -The portrait was made when he was a second-grade civil officer; insignia, or rank badge, designed with cloud and a wild goose -Korean portraits emphasize how the subject made a great contribution to the county and how the spirit of loyalty to the king and county was valued by Confucian philosophy
-May have served as a focus for ancestral rituals after death -May have hung in a private setting in a family shrine; hence the emphasis on the rank badge -Served as a reminder to his descendants of Sin Sukju’s status in Korean Society
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