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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
Early Spring
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Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
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
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Xu Beihong
Chinese painter
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Pan Tianshou
Chinese artist
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Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter
Zhang Daquian: The Reading Lady
Zhang Daqian
Chinese painter
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Liu Songnian
Chinese painter
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Lin Fengmian
Chinese artist
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Li Keran
Chinese artist
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Huang Binhong
Chinese painter
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Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
Ni Zan: Maple Leaves Falling on the Wu River
Ni Zan
Chinese painter
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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
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Jing Hao
Chinese artist