In Yuan dynasty, mural paintings mainly demonstrated human activities. The extension and profundity of both theme and content of mural...
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To consolidate their regime, rulers of Yuan dynasty adopted a high-handed policy. They divided people into four classes. Southern people...
Flower-and-bird paintings in Yuan dynasty were mainly featured by literati water ink freestyle. They were simple and clean, plain and...
The painting theme in Yuan dynasty was different from that of previous dynasties.Paintings of noble's outing life were taken place...
Yuan dynasty was under the reign of Mongolian nobles.Although it lasted for less than 100 years，it ended the territory disruption...
Literati painting, just as its name implies, refers to painting created by literati. The phrase was first brought forward by...
Paintings that depict folk customs and activities had come into being for a long time. In Northern Song dynasty, painters...
Figure painting at the time revealed more of people's daily life. Along with the development of economy, more and more...
Flower-and-bird painting gained great development in this period. There were many painters good at flower-and-bird painting. The rulers needed the...
Figure painting gained new improvement in the Five Dynasties. The Taoist and Buddhist figures were still very popular, but became...
The flower-and-bird painting played an important role in Chinese painting history. The subject matters of painting were more extended than...
Although the regime was transferred from one to another and the territory was disrupted in the Five Dynasties，the culture was...
Mural Painting in Tombs From the artistic works left till today, we know that the principal part of paintings in...
Flower-and-bird painting should be considered as the earliest kind of Chinese painting as the images of flower and bird appeared...
Paintings of mountain and water or landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting with natural sceneries as its depicting object....
The period of Sui and Tang dynasties，especially Tang dynasty，was the most prosperous time in ancient China history.The society was comparatively...
The fashion of literati doing painting started from late Han dynasty, examples were Zhang Heng, Cai Yong, Liu Bao, etc....
Different from grotto murals, tomb murals at the time were mainly about real life. The theme was mainly description of...
Flowery Paintings with both Chinese and Foreign Characteristics in the Three Kingdoms，Wei，Jin and the Southern&Northern Dynasties.The period of Three Kingdoms，Wei，Jin...
Brick Relief Another unique representative of fine art in Han dynasty was brick relief. To produce a brick relief first...