It may be difficult to believe that a sublime Chinese landscape was painted by an Italian artist. However, Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), a Baroque-era painter who studied art in Milan, Italy, succeeded in capturing the essence of Chinese landscape painting.
Have you ever looked up at a portrait and found yourself caught in the subjects’ gaze? They seem so alive that you long to jump into the painting to speak with them, learn their story, and see the world through their eyes.
March heralds the arrival of spring, as winter’s chill gives way to the first hint of warmth. Yellow daffodils are just beginning to push through the snow, and New York’s art scene is already buzzing with anticipation.
The great Western mountains of America were relatively uncharted in the mid 1800s. Far from the cities that paved over the natural world, the virgin landscapes—wild and pure—attracted the American romanticists and transcendentalists.
No one wants an unlucky symbol accidentally marring her wedding day—or her future happiness.
The four seasons tell us where we are in the story of our year, but did you know that within each one, there are six miniseasons that last 15 days each?
Every night in my college years, I gazed up at the moon and felt a comforting sense of connection, knowing that even though my loved ones were miles and oceans apart, the same moon lighted the way home for them.
A brilliant full moon adorns the boundless sky as households gather with their families. They laugh and talk, savor mooncakes with tea, and every so often, gaze up to marvel at the beauty of the moon while relishing the joy of their rare reunions.
As the chill of autumn sets in, trees begin to lose their vibrancy, and plants begin to wilt. However, one particular flower prevails—the chrysanthemum.
There is no better way to describe our world than as a kaleidoscope of colors. In traditional Chinese culture, colors are not just hues and pigments. Backed by five millennia of wisdom and culture, colors communicate in a language all their own.
On Sept. 30th, New York welcomed the grand finale of the first-ever NTD Global Chinese Beauty Pageant. It was part of a series of international cultural and arts events hosted by New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV).
“Gentle” and “graceful.” Those are the words used to describe an ideal woman in “Fishhawk,” the first poem in the Classic of Poetry, China’s oldest poetry anthology. For nearly the entirety of China’s 5,000 years of history, gentle and graceful have been the definitive qualities of a beautiful woman.
