Title: The Ming Dynasty | Boundless Art History
Headings: The Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty
Painting under the Ming Dynasty
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Background: The Ming Dynasty
Painting Styles
Development
Early Ming Period (1368–1505)
Middle Ming Period (1465–1566)
Late Ming Period (1567–1644)
The Decorative Arts under the Ming Dynasty
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Overview: Decorative Arts in China
The Ming Dynasty
Architecture and Urban Planning under the Ming Dynasty
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Chinese Architecture and Urban Planning After 1279
Fengshui Geomancy
The Well-field System and Numerology
Beijing and the Forbidden City
Symbolic Design
Chinese Literati Expressionism under the Ming Dynasty
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Overview: The Southern School and Literati Painting
History
The Literati Style and Artists

Content: These new conditions led to the rise of the Wu School of painting, a somewhat subversive style that revived the ideal of the inspired scholar-painters in Ming China. Painting Styles
During the Ming Dynasty, Chinese painting developed greatly from the achievements of the earlier Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. The painting techniques that were invented and developed before the Ming period became classical during this period. More colors were used in painting during the Ming Dynasty; seal brown, for example, became much more widely used, and sometimes even over-used. Many new painting skills and techniques were innovated and developed, and calligraphy was much more closely and perfectly combined with the art of painting. Chinese painting reached another climax in the mid- to late-Ming Dynasty, when many new schools were born and many outstanding masters emerged. Landscape in the Style of Yan Wengui by Dai Jin, hanging scroll, ink on paper (Early Ming Dynasty): Painting techniques that were invented and developed before the Ming period became classical during this period. This Chinese landscape painting uses the “atmospheric perspective” to show recession in space.