Portraits of the Emperors

painting by Yan Liben

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…important is the hand scroll Portraits of the Emperors, which depicts a series of emperors selected from about the preceding 800 years of history (only the last seven of the portraits are original; the first six were copies of earlier works). Yan Liben has imbued them with subtly defined characters…
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