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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436581).jpg "Two Men Walking in Misty Grove by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Listening to a Flute in a Lakeside Pavilion by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-431833).jpg "Seal in the Form of a Qilin, 15th-17th Century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-476902).jpg "Couch Bed by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436588).jpg "Phoenixes and Peonies by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Young Woman Reading a Book of Poems by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436879).jpg "Nymph of the Luo River by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-451689).jpg "Kendi, Jingdezhen Kilns, Jiangxi Province, China by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Confucius and Buddha Cradling a Qilin by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Large vase, Ming dynasty by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Scholar Approaching Secluded Pavilion by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Enjoying the Breeze in a Waterside Pavilion, 16th-17th Century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1090311).jpg "Chinese lute, moon guitar and table zither by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436556).jpg "Dragons in Clouds and Waters by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436552).jpg "Walking by a Mountain Stream by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "A woman and a butterfly by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Viewing the Full Moon from a Water Pavilion by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440204).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Travelers in the Springtime Mountains, 16th-17th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Hills Along a River, 16th-17th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_(see_also_272115)_-_(MeisterDrucke-431832).jpg "Figure of Kui Xing by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "A Horse, Two Men and a Boy by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Admonishing in Chains by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440203).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Laozi Crossing the Pass by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-411969).jpg "Yellow Ground Dishes Painted in Underglaze Blue, Ming Dynasty by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Washing the Elephant by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440191).jpg "Dish with turquoise glaze by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436727).jpg "Realm of the Immortals by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436878).jpg "Laozi Delivering the Daodejing by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436888).jpg "The Bodhisattva Puxian (Samantabhadra) by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-413323).jpg "Swatow Polychrome Oviform Jar, Late 16th Century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440201).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Fish and Water Weeds by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "An Outing on a Snowy Day by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_(see_also_272122)_-_(MeisterDrucke-431836).jpg "Figure of Guanyin Holding a Child by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440197).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "A Rider Lassoing a Horse by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_(see_also_272119)_-_(MeisterDrucke-431834).jpg "Figure of an Official by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "The Double Screen: Emperor Li Jing Watching His Brothers Play Weiqi by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440202).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Visiting the Sage at Wei River, Mid-15th Century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Female Immortals Gathering Herbs by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440198).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Bamboo, Frog and Insects by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_(see_also_272151)_-_(MeisterDrucke-431847).jpg "Mandala by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Peregrine on a Rock amid Waves by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Two Boys Playing with the Puppet of a Lion by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Evaluating a Horse by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440205).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Daoist Immortals in the Mountains by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436705).jpg "Luohan crossing a river by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Three Goats under a Flowering Plum Tree by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "The Immortal Lui Hai by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Playing the zither beneath a pine tree, late 16th-early 17th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436889).jpg "The Bodhisattva Wenshu (Manjusri) by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062545).jpg "Plate in copper and cloisonne enamel, Ming period by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Verdant Peaks in Clouds by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Summoning the Sage at Wei River by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "The Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Phoenixes on a Paulownia Tree by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436729).jpg "The captivity of Cai Wenji by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "A Broad View of Mountains and Water by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436707).jpg "Dhyani Buddha by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Xuanwu, God of the North by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440200).jpg "Ten pictures of birds and flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436426).jpg "Jar used as an incense burner, 16th-mid 17th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Camelias, Pigeons and Song Birds by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Landscape: Two Men in a Pavilion under Trees by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436425).jpg "Tile with figure of the Buddha Amitabha by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-54648).jpg "Detail of an Immortal Holding a Peach by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_(see_also_272116)_-_(MeisterDrucke-431831).jpg "Figure of Kui Xing by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436599).jpg "Head and Bust of a Lohan by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "A Pair of Three-legged Toads by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Wind and Snow at Ba Bridge by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436755).jpg "The Captivity of Cai Wenji by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-324483).jpg "Mountain view by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Birds and Flowers by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Autumn River in the Rain and Clouds by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Stopping the Zither to Watch the Waterfall by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Blue and white kraak platter painted with Li Tiegvai crossing the sea on a double gourd, Wanli period, 1594-1610 by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436347).jpg "Jar with three lugs by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436580).jpg "Enjoying a Meal on Board a Boat, 16th-17th Century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Birds, Plum Blossoms, Bamboo and Snow by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-428371).jpg "Teapot, from Duhua by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436329).jpg "Herons and Water Plants by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-431849).jpg "Figure of Wen Chang by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Magpies, Waxwing, Hibiscus and Cinnamon by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Clear Autumn over Hills and Streams by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436392).jpg "Bottle, late 14th-15th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-591196).jpg "Pair of Carved Qilin by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Jar decorated with brilliant yellow enamel, late 16th century by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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 (see also 272118) - (MeisterDrucke-591168).jpg "A figure of an official by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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.jpg "Water-buffaloes and Attendants under Willow-trees by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")
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Two men are sitting comfortably together. "Playing the zither for the friend" - and this is exactly what the ink drawing by Zhang Lu (1490-1563) expresses. The joy of one to play for the friend, and the joy of the other to listen to the friend. In Shen Zhou's masterful ink drawing "Poet on a Mountain Peak," the aforementioned poet can be seen only in modest outline on a rocky plateau rising steeply out of clouds of mist, the rugged mountain landscape "artificially" draped with bushes, cedars and spruces, and two or three cottages. How different "realistic" painting can be! They are meditative miniature stories that the artists of the Ming Dynasty tell with their wonderful ink and wash painting. And although it is figurative painting, it is also at the same time reduced and abstracted to a few brushstrokes and outlines: People, forest or rocks are recognizable, but the paintings search for the essence of the landscape, evoking rather a mood and atmosphere with soft, delicate ink strokes. Realistic - yes. But it is a completely different realism than according to European understanding. Chinese art has been rooted in tradition for centuries. Major stylistic breaks are not recognizable in it from the 7th to well into the 20th century, comparable to icon painting, which is also frozen in fixed guidelines, themes, patterns, figures or colors. But to understand Chinese art as an art of pure copying is wrong: When Chinese artists imitated their predecessors, it was about approximation to the models, about their interpretation.
From the Chinese point of view, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) meant a return to Chinese tradition after the foreign rule of the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty, a restoration not only of the domestic ruling class. The art of the Ming period harked back to the models of the Song and Tang dynasties (960-1279 and 618-907) and, especially in the 14th century, took rigorous action against "deviants"; many artists were arrested and killed. However, unlike in earlier eras, there was no central art academy at court; Ming artists retreated to the safety of their home regions. In the Ming period, two schools, brilliant in their landscape, bird, and flower compositions, are considered predominant: the Zhe School in Zhejiang Province and the Wu School in Suzhou Province at the mouth of the Yangtze River, both in the southeast of the empire. The Zhe school is known for its expressive ink painting. The Wu school is dominated by calligraphy techniques, fine brushstrokes in the tradition of Chinese penmanship, whose lines reflect not only the mood but the personality of the artist. From the late 15th century, the Wu school became increasingly important, including Shen Zhou (1427-1509) with his "Poet on a Mountain Peak." He is considered a major representative of the Wu School. Unlike the civil servant Zhe court painters and like many Wu artists after him, he was not active as a professional painter as part of the official Chinese civil service career, but a so-called gentleman artist, a scholar and "amateur" who was not commissioned by the court, but devoted himself (financially) independently to art.
Towards the end of the Ming era, in the 17th century, the works of art become increasingly free and independent of traditional styles - from the Chinese point of view: "wild" and "chaotic". In addition, with the sporadic appearance of light-shadow and perspective effects, the first European influences can be noticed, after Jesuit missionaries had brought engravings and oil paintings to China.
Two men are sitting comfortably together. "Playing the zither for the friend" - and this is exactly what the ink drawing by Zhang Lu (1490-1563) expresses. The joy of one to play for the friend, and the joy of the other to listen to the friend. In Shen Zhou's masterful ink drawing "Poet on a Mountain Peak," the aforementioned poet can be seen only in modest outline on a rocky plateau rising steeply out of clouds of mist, the rugged mountain landscape "artificially" draped with bushes, cedars and spruces, and two or three cottages. How different "realistic" painting can be! They are meditative miniature stories that the artists of the Ming Dynasty tell with their wonderful ink and wash painting. And although it is figurative painting, it is also at the same time reduced and abstracted to a few brushstrokes and outlines: People, forest or rocks are recognizable, but the paintings search for the essence of the landscape, evoking rather a mood and atmosphere with soft, delicate ink strokes. Realistic - yes. But it is a completely different realism than according to European understanding. Chinese art has been rooted in tradition for centuries. Major stylistic breaks are not recognizable in it from the 7th to well into the 20th century, comparable to icon painting, which is also frozen in fixed guidelines, themes, patterns, figures or colors. But to understand Chinese art as an art of pure copying is wrong: When Chinese artists imitated their predecessors, it was about approximation to the models, about their interpretation.
From the Chinese point of view, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) meant a return to Chinese tradition after the foreign rule of the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty, a restoration not only of the domestic ruling class. The art of the Ming period harked back to the models of the Song and Tang dynasties (960-1279 and 618-907) and, especially in the 14th century, took rigorous action against "deviants"; many artists were arrested and killed. However, unlike in earlier eras, there was no central art academy at court; Ming artists retreated to the safety of their home regions. In the Ming period, two schools, brilliant in their landscape, bird, and flower compositions, are considered predominant: the Zhe School in Zhejiang Province and the Wu School in Suzhou Province at the mouth of the Yangtze River, both in the southeast of the empire. The Zhe school is known for its expressive ink painting. The Wu school is dominated by calligraphy techniques, fine brushstrokes in the tradition of Chinese penmanship, whose lines reflect not only the mood but the personality of the artist. From the late 15th century, the Wu school became increasingly important, including Shen Zhou (1427-1509) with his "Poet on a Mountain Peak." He is considered a major representative of the Wu School. Unlike the civil servant Zhe court painters and like many Wu artists after him, he was not active as a professional painter as part of the official Chinese civil service career, but a so-called gentleman artist, a scholar and "amateur" who was not commissioned by the court, but devoted himself (financially) independently to art.
Towards the end of the Ming era, in the 17th century, the works of art become increasingly free and independent of traditional styles - from the Chinese point of view: "wild" and "chaotic". In addition, with the sporadic appearance of light-shadow and perspective effects, the first European influences can be noticed, after Jesuit missionaries had brought engravings and oil paintings to China.
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.jpg "Mynahs, Geese, and Flowering Plum by Ming Dynasty Chinese School")