Zhang Zeduan

Chinese painter

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In Chinese architecture: The Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties
…by the 12th-century court artist Zhang Zeduan (whether painted before or after the sacking is uncertain). From contemporary accounts, Bianjing was a city of towers, the tallest being a pagoda 110 metres (360 feet) high, built in 989 by the architect Yu Hao to house a relic of the Indian…
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In Chinese painting: Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties
…academicians at Huizong’s court were Zhang Zeduan, whose extraordinarily realistic Qingming Festival scroll (Palace Museum, Beijing) preserves a wealth of social and architectural information in compellingly artistic form, and Li Tang, who fled to the south in 1127 and supervised the reestablishment of the northern artistic tradition at the new…
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