Room 7
Chinese Painting
1150–1717, China, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties
Chinese painters worked with ink on silk and paper, on hanging scrolls, handscrolls and album leaves. Around 1200, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui shaped court painting under the Southern Song. Later, scholar-painters such as Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming saw themselves as poets with the brush, while eccentrics such as Shitao and Bada Shanren deliberately broke the rules.