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Picturing art's past

Updated: 2022-04-01 08:49 ( China Daily )

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Some replicas of stone statues from the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, are shown at an exhibition, which opened on March 10, at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. WANG JINCHAO/FOR CHINA DAILY

Cutting-edge technology enables precious paintings to be examined without fear of damage, report Ma Zhenhuan and Qi Xiao in Hangzhou.

As the focus of the visitor's eyes moves, the scroll of A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, one of the best-known Chinese landscape paintings by artist Wang Ximeng of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), unfurls. Standing in front of Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu, painted by artist Li Zhaodao of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), visitors might be forgiven for thinking that they have stepped into the emperor's world.

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