Landscape with Rocky Precipice
16th century
Sesson Shūkei
Fluid brushwork and rhythmically repeating forms characterize this imaginary Chinese landscape of mountains, a river bridged by a narrow strip of land, and lively human activity. A cluster of buildings clings to sharply rising cliffs, a forest behind them is shrouded in mist. Passenger boats glide by, travelers—one on a donkey, the others on foot—proceed from the foreground to the steep mountain path. Sesson, one of the great masters of sixteenth-century ink painting, produced varied tones of ink from rich black to pale grey which combine with diagonal brushstrokes to create the texture of rocks and crags and emphasize the peculiar concave shapes at the base of the cliffs.
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Raphael
School of Athens
Fresco
Early 1500's
Dimensions: 16′ 5″ x 25′ 3″
“Channel Markers” (Miotsukushi)
late 14th–early 15th century
Medium:Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:Image: 12 3/16 in. x 14 ft. 8 in. (31 x 447 cm)
da Vinci
1495–1498
15′ 1″ x 29′
Mural
Mt. Dong (Grotto Mountain), 1500s.
