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Also Known As Wen Cheng-ming • Wen Bi
Born 1470 • Suzhou • China
Died 1559 (aged 89)
Movement / Style Wu school
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Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
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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Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
Gardening, painting in ink and colour by Shen Zhou; in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
Shen Zhou
Chinese painter
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
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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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Lin Fengmian
Chinese artist
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Li Keran
Chinese artist
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Huang Binhong
Chinese painter
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Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter

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