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Lady Dai (Xin Zhui): funerary banner

Chinese landscape scene

Admonitions of the Court Instructress

Bodhisattva: painted mural, China

mural from the tomb of Li Xian

Li Zhaodao: Minghuang's Journey to Shu

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

A Pheasant and Sparrows Among Rocks and Shrubs

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Lady Dai (Xin Zhui): funerary banner

Chinese landscape scene

Admonitions of the Court Instructress

Bodhisattva: painted mural, China

mural from the tomb of Li Xian

Li Zhaodao: Minghuang's Journey to Shu

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

A Pheasant and Sparrows Among Rocks and Shrubs

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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

Xia Gui

Chinese artist

Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall

Ma Yuan

Chinese painter

Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Mi Fu

Chinese artist

Xu Beihong

Chinese painter

Pan Tianshou

Chinese artist

Lu Yanshao

Chinese painter

Zhang Daquian: The Reading Lady

Zhang Daqian

Chinese painter

Wu Changshuo

Chinese artist

Wang Wei

Chinese author and artist

Liu Songnian

Chinese painter

Dong Qichang

Chinese artist

Lin Fengmian

Chinese artist

Li Keran

Chinese artist

Huang Binhong

Chinese painter

Chen Shizeng

Chinese painter and critic

Wang Hui

Chinese painter

Ni Zan: Maple Leaves Falling on the Wu River

Ni Zan

Chinese painter

Shitao

Chinese painter

A Monkey with Her Baby on a Pine Branch, right portion of a hanging scroll triptych by Muqi Fachang, ink and slight colour on silk; in the Daitoku Temple, Kyōto, Japan.

Muqi Fachang

Chinese painter

Jing Hao

Chinese artist