Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Landscape painting and calligraphy were the ultimate expressions of art in traditional China. The ideal for the scholar was to commune with nature, walking among the mountains and streams ...

Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings”. Entitled Wood and Rock, the ink-on-paper handscroll depicts a dragon-like old ...