Spring Morning at the Palace of the Han Emperors

Spring Morning at the Palace of the Han Emperors

Unidentified artist

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This painting, likely made in the seventeenth century, bears a fake signature of Zhao Boju, a Southern Song painter famous for his work in the blue-green landscape mode. Here, this palette is used to evoke the distant past—a picture of antiquity as a magical, distant land.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.