"You can see there [are] horizontal lines that ... "To appreciate a Chinese painting, you would have to, for example, unroll a scroll, and roll it back up. If it were an album, you'd have to ...

The word “handscroll” in Chinese consists of the characters “hand” and “scroll,” which ... and scholarship with the painting. It is not known whether the horizontal painting defined ...

Taking advantage of the scroll’s horizontal format ... tend to be fragile. Typically, a Chinese scroll painting would be stored rolled up in a box, and put on view only for short periods ...

A mutilated, painted Chinese ... scroll number six depicting The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour (1689-1695) is also a reminder of the sheer number of once-looted imperial Chinese ...

BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The National Art Museum of China has launched an exhibition featuring a giant oil-painting scroll on the Yellow River by Chinese artist Wang Keju. The masterpiece is ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a ...

A Qianlong-dynasty scroll painting sold today in Toulouse ... was the most paid for a Chinese artwork at a French auction. The work, showing the army of the Qianlong emperor at a military review ...

A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll sold for nearly $42 million at an auction in Hong Kong. According to Sotheby’s, the piece of art fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million).

BEIJING - The Chinese military released an animated short film on National Day showing pieces of a scroll painting, which was torn in two more than 300 years ago, being reunited, in a show of the ...