Abstract: Although gardens were pre-existing to landscape paintings, these paintings have a predominant influence on gardens in China: several well-known gardens have been built or rebuilt after paintings, e. g. after pictorial sources. There are two emblematic examples of this practice: the Orchid Pavilion Garden close to Shaoxing, and the garden of the Humble Administrator in Suzhou. Both have been rebuilt during the 1980's, not after maps, prints or descriptions, but after paintings. The talk will only examine the case of the Orchid Pavilion Garden, as the Orchid Pavilion Garden: legend: Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Spring Purification Ceremony at the Orchid Pavilion Garden (Lanting Xiuxi tu), dated 1542, ink and colours on silk, 24,2 x 60,1 cm, Peking, Old Palace Museum.

garden of the Humble Administrator has already been studied by several scholars. Bio: Yolaine Escande幽蘭 is Research Professor at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS); her research field is on Chinese aesthetics, graphic arts, and theory of arts (calligraphy and painting), and comparative aesthetics. She has translated from Chinese to French Chinese calligraphy and painting fundamental treatises Currently, she is full member of the UNESCO’s Advisory Committee for Works of Art (ACWA), 2018-2022, and Director of her research centre, CRAL. She was trained by Profs. François Cheng程抱一 and Hsiung Ping-Ming 熊秉明(MA INALCO, Ph.D Paris 7th University) in aesthetics and Chinese philosophy, as well as Western aesthetics in Paris 10th-Nanterre Philosophy Department. She has received fellowships and grants from Ministry of Education (France, Taiwan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France, China), CNRS, ANR (French National Research Agency). She was invited Professor in several countries (Switzerland EPFL, Taiwan Soochow University, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Cheng-Chi Univ. Depts. of Philosophy, Sichuan Normal University, Spain Granada University…). She was International Society for Chinese Philosophy’s (ISCP) elected Vice-President (2007-2009) and President (2009-2011), and is currently member of ISCP’s Executive Committee. She has organised tens of int’ workshops, lectures & conferences. Yolaine Escande was trained in Chinese calligraphy by Hsiung Ping-Ming in Paris, and in painting by Yeh Tsui-pai in Taipei. She has participated almost every year to international calligraphic events since 1989. She was invited several times to ink painting biennials in China, especially 2001 and 2003 Shenzhen Ink Art Biennial on Landscape painting. She was the first non-Chinese artist to have a solo exhibition in an Academy of Fine Arts in China, in 1999 (in Chengdu), and some of her paintings have been collected in Rongbao zhai collection in Peking.