This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
Giuseppe Castiglione, Chinese name Lang Shih-ning, was an Italian Jesuit, who is perhaps better known as an artist and an architectural designer than as a missionary. He came to China in 1715 to prose..
This painting, selected from Lang Shih-ning's album Immortal Calyxes, Eternal Spring, depicts brilliantly colored peonies swaying in the wind. Painting from life, the artist has used such Western ..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
Lang Shining is the Chinese name of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian who became a Jesuit novitiate at the age of 19, studying painting and architecture as well. He arrived in China at the age of 27 to..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
Giuseppe Castiglione, Chinese name Lang Shih-ning, was an Italian Jesuit, who is perhaps better known as an artist and an architectural designer than as a missionary. He came to China in 1715 to prose..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
Pin-Jing Embroidery is one of the traditional embroidery styles in China. It's embroidered with golden and silver lines from outter area gradually into the center, and then to fix the design with ..
Patches are bright and beautiful embroidery of animals originated from the Song and Yuan dynasties, also an indication and decoration of ranks symbolized on the official clothes in the Ming and Q..
"Diplomacy Writing" is a style of writing used when Chinese Empire wrote to the emperor of another empire. This one is the Diplomacy Writing from Ching Dynasty to the United Kingdom, written..
Shen Zhenlin (style name Fengchi), a native of Wuxian (modern Suzhou, Jiangsu) served the Qing court painting academy in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi reigns (1851-1875). He specialized in figures and port..
Shen Zhenlin (style name Fengchi), a native of Wuxian (modern Suzhou, Jiangsu) served the Qing court painting academy in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi reigns (1851-1874). He specialized in figures and port..
Shen Zhenlin (style name Fengchi), a native of Wuxian (modern Suzhou, Jiangsu) served the Qing court painting academy in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi reigns (1851-1878). He specialized in figures and port..
Bearing the signature "Painted by the Servitor Ma Yuan", this work depicts part of a branch in a succinct composition rendered with fine brushwork and delicate colors. The verse inscribed in..
In this painting of a branch of peach blossoms is an inscription that reads, "Planted a thousand years ago, in the second month they begin to flourish." Appearing next to it are impressions ..
This work was originally a rounded fan and, according to the title slip at the right, done by the Five Dynasties painter Huang Quan. It is, however, very similar instead to a painting by Lin Chun (fl...
Li An-chung served in the Painting Academy during the Xuanhe era (1119-1125) of Emperor Huizong's reign in the Northern Song. After the Jingkang Disaster of 1126, he reassumed his position in the ..
Though the birth and death dates of Ma Wenlin are unknown, he was a court painter of the middle to late Qing dynasty serving in the Ruyi Hall group around the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns (1862 to 1908)..
Though the birth and death dates of Ma Wenlin are unknown, he was a court painter of the middle to late Qing dynasty serving in the Ruyi Hall group around the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns (1862 to 1908)..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..
This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the i..