Notable people
12 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
Artists
Painters and Calligraphers
Artists known for brush-and-ink painting and calligraphy
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Mural guide
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Painters and calligraphers are people known for painting and calligraphy. Their works are mostly scrolls and albums on paper and silk, as well as murals, stone inscriptions and model calligraphy, and in modern times the role also covers painters who used Western techniques. Their achievement appears in surviving works, colophons and catalogues. They differ from sculptors in working on a flat surface with brush, ink, line and colour rather than shaping solid material.
People in this role
- Cui Yuan77 - 142
- Cai Yong132 CE–192 CE
- Handan ChunDates unknown; wrote the Cao E stele in 151 and was still active early in the Huangchu era of Wei (c. 220–221)
- Wang Xizhi303 CE–361 CE (by another account 321–379)
- Wang Xianzhi344 CE–386 CE
- Gu Kaizhic. 344 CE–c. 405 CE
- Wang Xun349 CE–400 CE
- Dai KuiBorn c. 331 CE (uncertain)–396 CE
- Wang Wei (Liu Song)415 CE–453 CE
- Xiao Ziyun487 CE–549 CE
- Yu Jianwu487 CE–551 CE
- Wang YuanDates unknown; active c. 509 under the Northern Wei
- Zheng DaozhaoBirth year unknown; died 516
- ZhiyongDates unknown; active in the Chen and Sui dynasties
- Zhan ZiqianDates unknown; served the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Sui, active in the later 6th century and under the Sui
- Ouyang Xunc. 557 CE–641 CE
- Yu Shinan558 CE–638 CE
- Chu Suiliang596 CE–658 CE
- Yan Lidec. 600 CE–656 CE
- Yan Libenc. 600 CE–673 CE
- Feng Chengsu617 CE-672 CE
- Lu JianzhiDates unknown; active in the early Tang (7th century)
- Sima Chengzhen647–735 CE
- Guo QuanDates unknown; copied the Shanjian lu in the twelfth lunar month of Zhenguan 22 (late 648 or early 649)
- HuairenDates unknown; active c. 648–672
No people in this role for that dynasty.