Wang Wei
Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman · China · Writers · Lived 699 to 759 · aged 60
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Something wrong?Wang Wei, courtesy name Mojie, was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
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Riders on Horseback, Northern Qi dynasty, the general area of the rebel heartland, although of an earlier date
A modern picture from Mount Hua, in the Qinling Mountain Range, perhaps suggesting some of the area's wild and rugged features which still exist today, and which would have also been enjoyed by Wang Wei and his friends.
Photograph of Wang Wei's Snowy River. Formerly part of the Manchu Family Collection, Beijing, now lost.
After Wang Wei's 'Snow Over Rivers and Mountains', Wang Shimin (1668), National Palace Museum
Dong Qichang's painting of "Landscapes in the Manner of Old Masters" (Wang Wei). Album leaf. Nelson-Atkins MuseumIn their orbit
About this person
Wang Wei, courtesy name Mojie, was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. A large portion of his finest poems drew inspirations from the local landscape.
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