The pictorial arts of Japan. With a brief historical sketch of the associated arts, and some remarks upon the pictorial art of the Chinese and Koreans (1886)
Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 580
CHINESE ART. 259 The Chinese knew nothing of fresco or encaustic painting, and never, so far as we can learn, made any use of oil as a medium for their pigments, but it must of course be remembered that the latter addition to the painter’s resources was equally unknown in Europe down to the… … Fig. 141.’ From a picture by Yiich Shan (Gessan). Ming dynasty. With the Ming dynasty commenced the decadence of Chinese pictorial art. The Japanese painter Sesshiu, who visited China in the fifteenth century and attached himself to a famous monastery there for some years, regarded the works of the…
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