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The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C92bYFQDTzA Bamboo in Wind, Ming dynasty, ca. 1460 Xia Chang (Chinese, 1388–1470) China Hanging scroll; ink on paper According to historical records of the Zhou dynasty, the earliest gardens in China were vast parks built by the aristocracy for pleasure and hunting. Han-dynasty texts mention a greater in..

Mountains and Water: Exploring the Chinese Handscroll - Part 2 of 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv-UDym-bYc Old Trees, Level Distance, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), ca. 1080 Guo Xi (Chinese, ca. 1000–ca. 1090) Handscroll; ink and color on silk Guo Xi was the preeminent landscape painter of the late eleventh century. Although he continued the Li Cheng (919–967) idiom of "crab-claw" ..

Mountains and Water: Exploring the Chinese Handscroll - Part 1 of 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEXh1-3wrY Twin Pines, Level Distance, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), ca. 1300 Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) Handscroll: ink on paper 10 1/2 x 42 1/4 in. (26.7 x 107.3 cm) Zhao Mengfu, a leading calligrapher of his time, set the course of scholar-painting by firmly establishing its two basic te..

The Eccentric World of Luo Ping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf2SHtzCzY Learn more about the exhibition Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733—1799), on view at the Met October 6, 2009—January 10, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/luoping The Eccentric World of Luo Ping. Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Luo Ping (1733—17..