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Zhao Mengfu, Water Village , 1302 Source: Wikimedia Commons I have been reading Shane McCausland's scholarly study, Zhao Mengfu:...

Unidentified artist in the style of Sheng Mou,  Fan painting illustrating Su Shi's 'Second Ode on the Red Cliff',  late 1...

 Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colours on the Qiao and Hua Mountains , 1296 Back to normal now, for blog post number 1,001, and at this time of y...

Last year I wrote about one of James Elkins' Art Seminar Series, Landscape Theory , and I'm turning now to one of his other rece...

Xie Youyu (or Xie Kun) was a Jin Dynasty scholar-official.  One day, the story goes, Emperor Ming asked him how he thought he compared with ...

This is a detail from Whiling Away the Summer (1679) a handscroll by Wu Li (1632-1718). What an enticing image of scholarly retreat! As ...