Photo : Helen Pletts, 海伦·普莱茨 Cambridge 2024. ‘Night-Shining White’, the bilingual poetry of Helen Pletts & Ma Yongbo 马永波 , published by Pete Taylor, Open Shutter Press, due out in 2025.

The Imperial Ming PalaceThis 15th-century tempera on silk painting depicts the many palaces ... Imperial founderThird ruler of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle emperor moved the Chinese capital ...

Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

In the 2000s, Varejão left behind oil painting and figuration, and the gashes extended to become cracks. “I fell in love with ceramics from the Song dynasty and I started to read the philosophy ...

focusing on impasto painting technique. We rigorously follow the clothing, architecture, environment and other elements of the late Ming Dynasty, to bring both the historical atmosphere and ...

Sponsor to Zheng He, the Ming emperor ... s modern oil painting of China’s greatest naval hero. The two main goods traded during his seven great voyages (1405-1433) were silk and porcelain.

He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother ... located on the northern frontier along the Silk Road), who had seized the Chinese city of ...

Those qualities began to emerge very clearly during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when ... and provided an inexpensive alternative to silk as a ground material for calligraphy and painting.