Rest Stop for the Khan
Partridge and Thorn Tit
Fushing Teaching
Lake and Sky in Spring |
Hu Gui, Five Dynasties This painting depicts the traveling party of Khitan Khan of 41 persons and 27 steeds taking a rest. At right warriors and their saddled mounts in the foreground take a rest standing; at left, in greater depth, the Khan and his wife sitting on a rug take refreshments and watch a dance accompanied by music. The pageantry of people and horses is layered with gradated depths in a break with the tradition of the flat, two-dimensional composition of the past. |
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