A 27-meter-long painting from China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) sold at Poly Auction in Beijing on Sunday for 512.9 million yuan ($76 million), becoming the most expensive Chinese artwork sold in ...

Martha Bleshman, a resident of San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, spends time examining a lotus painting by a Chinese artist more than 300 years ago.

“Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko” continues through February 20, 2017 at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

From the conquest of the Ming dynasty in 1644 by the Manchurians through the literary inquisitions of the eighteenth century, seemingly innocuous paintings of peony flowers kept alive a discourse of ...

A handscroll painting from the Ming dynasty by artist Wu Bin sold for 512.9 million yuan ($77 million), breaking the world record sale price for ancient Chinese calligraphies and paintings ...

HONG KONG (AP) — A Shanghai collector bought a rare Ming Dynasty cup that's touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world for $36 million at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday, smashing the ...

Two volumes of the Ming Dynasty’s Yongle Encyclopedia (永樂大典) sold yesterday at auction in Paris for 8 128 000€, over 1000 times of the estimated price. The Encyclopedia sought to ...