Paintings after old masters

Wu Long

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Though he is relatively little known today, the Anhui painter Wu Long was famous enough during his own lifetime that the poet and local celebrity Wang Hongdu compared him to the celebrated Ming-dynasty artist Shen Zhou (1427–1509). This album reveals Wu to be a gifted stylist capable of working in a wide range of different manners, from the spare, linear mode favored by other Anhui masters to densely colored compositions of blue and green.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art