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78ft long depiction of 20,000-strong army sold to bidder from Beijing A magnificent 8th-century Chinese silk scroll has been sold at auction for more than $30.8million, the highest auction price ...
This painting on a wooden panel shows scenes from the Central Asian story of the Silk Princess. According to this legend, a Chinese princess smuggled the secret of how to make silk out of China ...
Chinese paintings were not intended for display over long periods and owing to their production on silk or paper, tend to be fragile. Typically, a Chinese scroll painting would be stored rolled up ...
For French-born artist Claire Vassort, painting is about movement -- both in life and on silk. A former hang glider pilot for 30 years, she first came to Chattanooga for its outdoor scene and ...
embedded in an important point of the ancient Silk Road. Its unique cultural and tourism resources are like a resplendent and multicolored scroll painting, gradually unfurling to embrace the gaze ...
BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Brecksville Center for the Arts is offering a unique class on silk painting taught by Gunter Schwegler. The workshop will take place on from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday ...
A centuries-old painting of a lioness on a leash ... animal trade between the emperor and tributary states along the Silk Road. The Lioness, measuring over two metres high and nearly three ...