China's ten greatest paintings and other famous classics
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Along the River During the Qingming Festival — Zhang Zeduan · Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains — Huang Gongwang · A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains — Wang Ximeng. (Updated Dec 15, 2024.)
The so-called "ten greatest Chinese paintings handed down through history", plus a few other masterpieces often mentioned, from the Nymph of the Luo River to Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
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Top 14
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1
Along the River During the Qingming Festival — Zhang Zeduan
Northern Song. The bustle of Bianjing at Qingming; a treasure of the Palace Museum.
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains — Huang Gongwang
Yuan, 1347-1350. The scroll was later burned into two pieces.
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A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains — Wang Ximeng
Northern Song. A blue-green landscape scroll painted in six months by an 18-year-old.
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4
Nymph of the Luo River — Gu Kaizhi (Song copy)
Eastern Jin original, based on Cao Zhi's rhapsody.
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5
The Night Revels of Han Xizai — Gu Hongzhong
Southern Tang. A night banquet shown in five scenes.
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6
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy — Yan Liben
Tang. Emperor Taizong receives the Tibetan envoy.
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7
Five Oxen — Han Huang
Tang. Five oxen, each in a different pose.
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8
Court Ladies of the Tang Palace
A group of famous Tang works on the life of court women.
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9
Spring Morning in the Han Palace — Qiu Ying
Ming. A long scroll of palace women on a spring morning.
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10
One Hundred Horses — Giuseppe Castiglione
Qing. The Italian Jesuit painter blends Chinese and Western styles to paint a hundred horses.
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Travellers among Mountains and Streams — Fan Kuan
Northern Song. Tiny travellers beneath a towering peak; a treasure of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
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12
Early Spring — Guo Xi
Northern Song, 1072. A landscape as winter turns to spring.
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13
Spring Outing — Zhan Ziqian
Sui dynasty. Considered one of the oldest surviving landscape scrolls.
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14
Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies — Gu Kaizhi (copy)
Eastern Jin original; now in the British Museum.
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