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Nine Dragons (九龍圖卷; Jiǔlóngtú juǎn) is a handscroll painting by Chinese artist Chen Rong. [1] Painted in 1244, it depicts the apparitions of dragons soaring amidst clouds, mists, whirlpools, rocky mountains and fire, the painting refers to the dynamic forces of nature in Daoism and the liquid, water-like essence of the Tao. [2]
Pages in category "Paintings of Saint George and the Dragon" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alex Schaefer is also one of the co-creators of the popular video game series Spyro the Dragon. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The artist has received attention for his series of oil paintings portraying various banks in the Los Angeles area on fire, done en plein air in front of the buildings themselves.
The Warlock, also known as The Wizard and the Dragon, is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by German painter Carl Spitzweg, from 1875 and 1880. The original painting is now held in the Museum Georg Schäfer, in Schweinfurt, while the other is in a private collection. The two paintings are almost identical in motif but differ in size and ...
[5] The Eleven Dragons painting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art was formerly attributed to Chen Rong, but now is assigned to the Ming dynasty period. [ 6 ] In March 2017, the Six Dragons handscroll, attributed to Chen Rong, was sold by Osaka's Fujita Art Museum at Christie's for almost $49 million.
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The legendary episode of Saint George on horseback fighting with the dragon appears in this painting in fact more as a pretext, since it is relegated to the lower end of the table, to represent instead the magic of the wooded, harsh, and wild landscape, which evokes an arcane atmosphere full of suggestions, in which the human figures ...
Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Art Museum, Muryō-ji, Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture The Dragon Fusuma (龍図襖, Ryū zu Fusuma ) is an Edo period sliding door ink painting created in 1786 by artist Nagasawa Rosetsu , a student of Maruyama Ōkyo of the Maruyama school in Kyoto .