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Prosperous Suzhou (simplified Chinese: 姑苏 繁华 图; traditional Chinese: 姑蘇 繁華 圖; pinyin: Gūsū Fánhuá Tú), originally entitled Burgeoning Life in a Resplendent Age (simplified Chinese: 盛世 滋生 图; traditional Chinese: 盛世 滋生 圖; pinyin: Shèngshì Zīshēng Tú), is an 18th-century scroll painting created in 1759 by the Chinese court painter Xu Yang.
Xue was born in either Suzhou or Jiaxing (contemporary sources disagree). [3] According to the historian Qian Qianyi she spent at least some of her childhood in Beijing. [4] Due to her poor background, Xue Susu had performed in a circus troupe since she was a child, and developed the skills of riding a horse, shooting a slingshot, and walking on a rope. [5]
Ai Weiwei; Bao Zunxin; Bo Yang; Chen Yizi; Du Daozheng; Fang Fang; Fang Lizhi; Gu Su; He Weifang; Hu Jiwei; Hu Shuli; Jin Guantao; Li Honglin; Li Rui; Li Shenzhi; Li ...
Born in Inazawa, Takanori Ogisu was the son of a landowner in the Nagoya region. Ogisu went to Tokyo in 1920 to become a painter. He studied at the Kawabata painting school (川端 画 学校, Kawabata Gagakkō) under Fujishima Takeji, then went to the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (precursor of Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku), where he graduated in 1929.
Gu Kaizhi (simplified Chinese: 顾恺之; traditional Chinese: 顧愷之; pinyin: Gù Kǎizhī; Wade–Giles: Ku K'ai-chih; c. 344–406), courtesy name Changkang (長康), was a Chinese painter and politician during the Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420).
The monument was designed by architect Pier Luigi Foschi and artist Vittorio d'Augusta, [10] and resides by the cemetery's entrance, in symmetry with the funerary monument of Federico Fellini. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Gruau's ashes and those of his son were inaugurated behind the monument on 31 March 2009, [ 10 ] [ 12 ] having previously been buried at a ...
Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.He belonged to the fourth generation of a Jewish family which originally came from Poland. He was the son of Philip August Fischer (1817–1907) and Gustafva Albertina Svedgren (1827–1883).
Goyō Hashiguchi (橋口 五葉, Hashiguchi Goyō, December 21, 1880 – February 24, 1921) was a Japanese artist. At the forefront of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, a revival of ukiyo-e , he designed fourteen woodblock prints which are regarded as masterpieces of the genre.