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Wen Zhengming
Wen Zhengming (文徵明, 1470–1559) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of Suzhou who led the Wu School and ranks among the Four Masters of Ming painting.
Wu Zhen
Wu Zhen (吴镇, 1280–1354) was a Chinese painter of the Yuan dynasty and one of the Four Masters of the Yuan, known for reclusive fishermen, landscapes, and ink bamboo.
Xia Chang
Xia Chang (夏昶, 1388–1470) was a Chinese painter and official of the early Ming dynasty, best known for ink bamboo paintings sought after in Korea, Japan, and Siam.
Xiao Yuncong
Xiao Yuncong (萧云从, 1596–1673) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the late Ming and early Qing, founder of the Gushu school of painting in Wuhu, Anhui.
Yangzhou Eccentrics
The Yangzhou Eccentrics (扬州八怪), also called the Yangzhou school, were a group of painters in Qing dynasty Yangzhou who rejected orthodox conventions for expressive, individualist ink freehand work.
Yu Zhiding
Yu Zhiding (禹之鼎, 1647–1716) was a Chinese portrait painter of the early Qing dynasty who served the Kangxi court and painted the era's leading officials and scholars.
Zha Shibiao
Zha Shibiao (查士標, 1615–1698), courtesy name Erzhan, was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet of the early Qing dynasty, counted among the Four Masters of the Xin'an school.
Zhang Geng
Zhang Geng (張庚, 1685–1760) was a Qing dynasty painter, connoisseur, and art historian from Xiushui, Zhejiang, known for the Guochao Huazheng Lu and the treatise Pushan Lun Hua.
Zhang Sengyou
Zhang Sengyou (张僧繇) was a 6th-century court painter of China's Liang dynasty, one of the Six Dynasties masters, known for Indian-derived concave-convex shading and the dragon-painting idiom hua long dian jing.
Zhou Fang
Zhou Fang (周昉, courtesy names Zhonglang and Jingxuan, c. 730–800) was a mid-Tang dynasty Chinese painter from Chang'an, known for portraits of aristocratic women and creating the Water-Moon Guanyin iconography.
Zong Bing
Zong Bing (宗炳, 375–443), courtesy name Shaowen, was a Chinese painter, theorist, and lay Buddhist of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties who declined all offers of office.