Different from Western painting, traditional Chinese painting is characterized by unique forms of expression. Its roots can be traced back to paintings on Neolithic pottery some 6,000 years ago.
Western paintings included in the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art illuminate the important exchange of ideas between traditions that continues to this day. James McNeil Whistler ...
In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his ...