Chinese Painting

Rowlett’s ‘Canaletto’s View, Grey Day, South Westerly Blowing the Clouds’, 2013

How China's Bayeux Tapestry differs from ours

9 November 2013 9:00 am

The V&A’s remarkable survey of Chinese painting begins quietly with a beautiful scroll depicting ‘Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk’,…

Detail from ‘Saying Farewell at Xunyang’, 16th century, by Qiu Ying

What my addiction to Chinese painting made me do

9 November 2013 9:00 am

My addiction to Chinese landscape painting began in 1965 at the V&A, in a travelling exhibition of the Crawford Collection…